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05-05-2026 · 8h 00m
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The left's new golden boy, Twitch Streamer, doesn't even try to hide it.
Thirty-four-year-old Hassan Piker not only hates America, he's hinting at a civil war.
A noted far-left influencer is declaring the Republican Party the biggest terrorist on
earth.
Brekkah Deven and Hassan Piker is unapologetic for his controversial comments on a range
of issues.
An anti-American far-left commentator who is named Hassan Piker.
Now that he's being highlighted, Democrats are flocking to him.
He's not out there on Hassan Piker's show, right?
For example, right?
The man to his left is a very controversial guy.
Hassan Piker insults just about everyone.
Where if you go back and listen to some of the things
that he says, Carl, this guy's not gonna wear well.
Their so-called Joe Rogan of the left, Hassan Piker,
is back in the headlines this time
for calling Republicans terrorists.
Piker has a controversial history,
and we've been showing you this all week.
You don't give somebody like Hassan Piker
this kind of attention, this kind of platform.
It only rewards the kind of rhetoric that I just described.
Hundreds of students lined up and packed into these rallies
and they ate up the anti-war, anti-capitalist
and anti-establishment messages.
That's him, Nassan Piker.
They should stay away from him.
What's going on, everybody?
I hope everyone's having a fantastic evening,
afternoon, prenoon, no matter where you are in the world, I'm a son,
piker in this house on a broadcast coming to you live from
not so sunny, a little bit gloomy, California Los Angeles, 64 degrees and partially
64 degrees and partially sunny, California Los Angeles, I'm a son piker.
We're live.
We're alive as the house on a broadcast piker broadcasting service to people's
broadcasting service.
You already know what it is.
I'm suited up and booted up. That's right. I'm a suit guy now suit from the home. What's that about suit from the home
Latino not celebrating single the male
That's true. It's it's a single the male ladies and gentlemen boys girls and enemies Tuesday May 5th and
In honor of that
In honor of that we gotta we gotta do it for the one time. Okay?
Wow, no Mexican intro is crazy. Don't worry. I got it. Some even better than that. Okay.
I got something even better than that. Ladies and gentlemen, what the hell?
Naked America, great again!
Aya aya, I'm bored, oh, oh
So I'm going to vote, or go on the throne
See you tomorrow!
Aya aya, I'm bored, oh, oh
I'm bored, so I'm going to vote
And then I'll go on the throne
And then my people start voting without me being afraid of the streets
I know this is a Mexican dude. I know on this day on Karl Marx birthday on some
I've done so, I've done so, I've done so, okay, and this is...
Hey, enjoy. Enjoy gas being so expensive.
Do you hate me? Oh, come on come on come on come on. Okay. Okay. I got you. I got you. I got you. I got you
But this is a banger though. Can we admit it? This is a banger
I will vote
I will vote
For Donald Trump
Oh my god, I will vote
I was both part of the all-in-one throng. You know it. You know it already
Okay
Yeah
Say it
Uh-huh
I
Enough and up. Here's the real one. Here's the real one for singing a man
Italian and Mexican there you go. Go to the Southwest you become more Mexican
I used to be Italian and now I'm Mexican
This is true. There you go. I was just fucking with you. Okay
There you go
It's too late, it's only 11 o'clock and it won't arrive
How long will we be waiting to get home?
It's been a long time and we know
That this is what he's doing when it's about to start
All the days, when I enter, I ask where the man is, I touch him and I start to cry.
And suddenly my screens are reflecting, the song is sounding, let's go and start.
When the king says that the angels are coming for you, it's a very beautiful day, thank you for being here.
As always, ask the name of Gris, because you're a millionaire and he starts yelling.
El hombre tortó y me pongo a chorar
Y de repente mis pantallas se refrescan
La canción está sonando, te vamos a comenzar
Ya veremos si con este gran corrido
baby cast back for like a son, a saludo a castan
That's right. All right. There you go. Happy sync of the mile
everybody
Uh, I hope everyone's having a fantastic one
This is part of the broadcast where I tell you modelo or corona modelo. I don't
I've always it's always modelo time for me. I'm uh, I'm a modelo enjoyer
I don't know if the proper answer to that is corona, but I have always been a modelo fan
So don't get mad at me, but that is my preference
Yeah, happy birthday to the goat Karl Marx
And you already know what it is. You're a tiktok audio again. Wait, really you support Medicare for all
Universal child care. Yes
abolishing ice yes you support holding ice accountable beyond abolishing ice
absolutely um a workers bill of rights yes um a uh a federal jobs guarantee yes
the green new deal yes green for cities with mine
ending aid to israel yes uh calling out israel's genocide
me communicating on dating apps
Right answer here in Texas all about Modelo.
Defensive and defensive weapons.
Holding Israel accountable for committing a genocide.
Calling out what Israel is doing to be an apartheid, which is recognized by all international.
I saw this and I didn't even realize it was you. Did you realize this then?
It's modello negative time.
All right. Anyway, uh, uh, uh, uh, what do you know about that freestyle? Uh, I don't
know anything about anything. Okay. Ladies and gentlemen, boys, girls and ambies. Uh,
let's get into it. Uh, we're live. We're alive coming to you live from stolen Tongva
land here in Los Angeles, California, West Hollywood. I just pulled my long white tube
socks on my knees and started full walking with two modellos in my hands at 11am. Good.
I had to make up for it after doing the yo voy a votar.
Hassan is a freaking boomer. It sounds like an old head trying to show you music from his
time on a beat or ass phone. Yeah, that's like, that's literally
what the hell that's just unironically the meta. That's the whole point. This is a meme.
This is the meme. I'm a little time fool meme. Anyway, so do you really know the one? Did
you and will never wrote this DS? Okay, guys, guys, let me let me gather my thoughts. It's
part of the broadcast where I tell you about my personal news, okay? About what's going
on in the world of Hassan Hassanabi Piker. Okay. In the time period where I pressed the
stop streaming button and press the start streaming button and say, help me God, thank
you, Druko. I got your blast off memes. Don't you worry about it. I'm going to post that
shit in a second. Okay. And as personal news goes, as far as personal news goes, there's
not really much going on in my life as you guys know, because I'm a shut ass loser. I've
been hanging out with the fam uh i i didn't even really watch any of the invincible because i just
did not have any time to do anything i was just hanging out with the fam that's all i did uh
yesterday after i was done with the broadcast no merch i'm here today the merch um i'm trying to not
be a shut-ass loser. I did also play a little bit of basketball this morning. I'm trying to get
back into that, trying to get back into the cardio situation, get a little cardio joint going,
improve my cardiovascular capabilities. So I'm back on that grind.
Um, but, uh, but yeah, other than that, not really much going on, man pulls police car.
What is this?
Man poli man pulls police car down the street with penis to raise awareness for prostate
cancer.
Okay.
Okay, I mean look at why not
Plus one piker among Dems and Lawler's district
Yeah, I I know I'm a I'm a shut-ass loser
Did you see how Richard Dawkins fell in love with Claude AI and closet Claudia. Yeah, cuz he's a he's a moron
Your IG blast off story did not upload. I know I don't know why my internet is like kind of busted
I think that's what it is. It's just like not uploading for some reason. But yeah.
But I decided to do a little dress up and look a little bit more conservative. You know what I mean?
Since they're constantly posting me on Fox News, the least I can do is look more conservative when
they do that. So then inadvertently the conservative, inadvertently the conservative moms and dads
will, when they're watching, they'll be like, well, wait a minute, that's a handsome, that's
a handsome young man reminds me of a young Tucker. You know, are you trying to get hired
by, by Fox news? No, we got you giving Zaddy instead of Ankh. Thank you. That's right.
the MAGA hat on, the moment you feel like a hot take is coming, that's what I should be doing.
But other than that, obviously we got,
other than that,
we got a rally with Shroy Kahtrakar Bharti and maybe some other,
just democrats potentially because you guys are asking like who are the guests this week
because you guys are so used to guests. Apparently I got hella guests on the show. This is a
guest show now. It's the clip show. It's the guest show. But yeah, we're going to be
10 guerrilla invoices from Sweden this upcoming election? Hell yeah. Your k-high bop thinks
he's done a gotcha on the Armenian genocide. Say your home country turkey committed a genocide
against armanians right now wait what I've been saying it so fuck
stoke to see you on stage with Stoke to see you on stage with Shoecott in San
Francisco Thursday night yeah what is this meet the latest China national
Hiro-Jung, what is this we have we have actually officially reached like on status here
this is Chinese netizen status to the maximum now you guys are now you guys are literally
sending me shit that's like popping on Chinese social media like this is a bridge too far
I feel like. Yeah, I did have, April was a stack month, it seems. I had a lot of on-stream
guests this month, and I suspect that that's the reason why you guys are always like, I
And I suspect that's the reason why you guys are demanding more guests.
Weirdly enough, one of these is not like the other, yeah, Austin show and the corner out
of nowhere.
Who's the bottom left guy who let him sneak in?
That's Gavin Newsom.
That's the current governor of California.
you haven't noticed. Uh, anyway, so yeah, that's what we got. Uh, not too much else going on
in my life. Like I said, shut ass loser status. You already know what it is. So, uh, yeah,
that's what we got going on. All right, let's blast off. Let's let the people know that
I'm live. I'm alive. I started early today. Straight open by force, daily wired now. Scooters
restores a Borobo pill, Iran fights back, oil climbs. Primaries are upon us. His primary
season baby is primary for the midterms. Midterms, midterm primaries are upon us.
Was Austin the white guess quota? Yes.
Why do you want to Larpus Tucker the outfit? New Anthony Bourdain,
movie trailer? Yeah, I saw that there's a new Anthony Bourdain movie coming out.
We'll we'll take a look at the trailer. I love Anthony Bourdain
Cutie, please come back. Uh, this yeah this last week's episode on the podcast was crazy
So what's your take this motherfucker did a wait he went to london to do a subway tape with zag
politicians should wear he sponsors them all over the necklace 100%
George collin made a joke about this. Oh, there's a george collin
a tube, tube take
you are going to your nephew day
what is this you are going to your nephew
the day I have no idea what you're trying to say here
this is chatter
you have to you have to rewrite
that question that is what Jason your nephew
Jason, my nephew, it's his birthday. When is his birthday? Jason Law, you're old. Um,
maybe, I don't know. Uh, it depends on when it is depends on if I'm here is Karl Marx's
birthday today. Is he your nephew? Yes, Karl Marx. I'm his nephew. Um, your old like bidet
they make sense. Yeah. And it's core up now. Yeah, I have not been invited by my nephew.
So, so probably not. But I also don't know when it is. Anyway, um, it's Luffy's birthday
too. True. Damn snubbed. So what's your take? Politicians should wear responses on all
100% agree. George Carlin made a joke about this.
Oh, this is a George Carlin joke. Yeah, yeah, but it shouldn't be a joke.
Yeah, he made it a joke, but it should be real.
Yeah, if you have politicians on TV who are like,
rapping for oil and gas companies,
arm-trade companies, gambling companies, private health care companies,
there should be like a ticker above the screen, so this is his position.
A ticker tape while you're on TV,
and it says funded by oil and gas, arm-trade, private health care.
Even the tube is telling us who's sponsoring it.
Sponsoring it right movies television even in my business when I do an ad for a company
I have to disclose that it's not really have to put hashtag ad and I have to take the sponsor
I could be sorry right now sponsoring the chief and you wouldn't know about it. I know but that I know by the way
No, it's crazy because you don't know what you're voting for
If you don't know where the money's coming from right so I might see a candidate who's saying all of their I think
But then I look into the funders and all of a sudden I'm like, oh, he's obviously lying to get the vote
I'm gonna give him more wild. I don't think politicians should be taking dirty money anyway
I think they should be funded by regular members, which is a green pipe by the way, just in case anyone in the chief needs to know that
No, it's true. That is literally one of the biggest things that's wrong with
Western society is that corporate sponsored lobbyist money has infiltrated
politics. I actually think that is what destroyed democracy. 100% agree. So how are you funded?
95% by regular donations from members. So that means we take like five or ten years or maybe even
more. And what that means is we're free not to take money from. This guy wouldn't have.
This guy, Kareem, wouldn't even do this for Kamala Harris. But of course, when it's a man,
he has no problem promoting a man. I don't know, was that good? Was that like a good,
am I able to do like a good centrist Democrat who's mad?
You know, he just hates to see a girl boss win. Clearly this guy's an op. He's also saying things
muslimically, and I don't like that. And that obviously is very frustrating.
Dirty money or big corporations. People say I talk fast. And one of the reasons why I talk fast
is I don't have to second think. You were mentioned on the Kill Tony podcast yesterday. Oh God.
What I'm thinking about, because I'm nothing about you made me to say it. I'm just saying what I
think. Footballers, they were the sponsors. I don't want politicians running around in shorts.
100% agree. No politicians in shorts. You're showing off for the people.
You got to wear a suit without a tie. I think you can wear a tie. No, no, no. We need a new
take. No one should ever be wearing a tie anytime ever. I disagree. 100%. 100% disagree. I think
ties are cool. You were mentioned that we killed Tony Poccas.
That had a blue healer and this was all very long time ago and yeah, that dog was
Reefless. Yeah to save Elise. Did you call them blue healers? We call them blue tick healers for I grew up
I actually just bought him a shock collar. We're talking
The differences in dog names, so no, what were you saying? I'm very sorry
You killed him though, might move on.
No, no, we can, I don't think I did.
Do you know why they call them healers?
No.
I actually found them.
Oh, because they put your heels?
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's what they do.
You knew that, right?
I did know that and I actually bought him a shock collar and no kidding, I was inspired
by Timmino Breaks' performance.
Yeah.
Legendary.
To make that happen, to get the nip out.
get the nip out. I live with my bandmates and one of the dog does not like one of my bandmates.
So why, what do you think it is about that bandmate that the dog doesn't like?
This is it. That's what you're like, because you just said he got a shock collar. That's why
why is this guy so red? It's Tony Hitchcliffe. He just looks unbelievably red all the time.
time. As you guys know, my thing is always, Kill Tony is an incredible concept ruined
by the guy who the show is named after, who happens to be Tony Hitchcliffe. But yeah,
saying kill Tony like people these people know what that is yeah I mean I've
I used to listen to I used to listen to kill Tony yes belly the bees went to the
Cuban hotel and Nick Shirley's illegally staying in I know I don't hold on we're
gonna we're gonna watch all of that yeah Nick Shirley is trying to
Nick Shirley is trying to to instigate the invasion of Cuba obviously we'll be
talking about that as well. You need to get a Malapel pin of protection versus landlords.
Wait, I have one. Don't I? Where the fuck is it? Hold on. I mean, I don't have the
lapel pin here, but I have this. I mean, this is a, you know, I got some. I don't know where
the pin is. I have a Malpin somewhere, but I don't know where it is. I carry this shit on my desk
at all times, buddy. Don't even test me on this, okay? What are you talking about? Right here.
Special a dish.
Special a dish.
Right from Tim square.
Why is there a whiteboard in Kaiz Cam? Oh yeah, we got a new thing, but I'm not going to show it to you right now.
Anyway, Eric Roasted, Nick Shirley, he's so dumb he couldn't understand.
What is this? Cuba fumbled the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever?
Oh, here it is. Here's the
the Mount Laple pin.
Are you supposed to put it like right here? Like is that what the lapel opening is for?
I don't know where to put it, Larper.
Caveman discovering clothing.
I don't fucking know, man.
I wore suits my whole goddamn life because I was when I was growing up in Turkey, going
the school and and let me tell you okay I hated it it was what is this yes bro the lapel button
hole on the left side is what is for perfect I make bespoke suits and clothing you got a 100%
right yeah we're gonna be talking about Nick shitley and and what this actually means
okay
Praying Cuba makes his dumbass literate while he's there. So he understands what I meant
Anyway, do you see Brian Tyler Hoa Cohen on Fox News about chairman?
You're absolutely kills it and gets cut off constantly
It's news max. I think it's the one I'm thinking of or news nation. Yeah, not on Fox News. I did see this and he cooked
Bro is currently the least literate person in Cuba. I know we're going to talk about Nick
Shirley in a second. Don't worry. We're going to get to all the Nick Shirley stuff in a moment. But
before we do that, before we do that, before we do that, what else did I have going on? Did
I blast off already? I think I might have forgot. Oh, yeah, I did. Okay.
Watch this before the wall of hell.
Yeah, he escaped. He escaped from Cuba. They were, they were holding him. They were going to
hold him hostage. It's so fucking nuts that you could just like make whatever you want.
You can make up whatever you want about countries like Cuba, or even countries like China and
general as well, but especially countries like Cuba, because they're just like too poor.
Okay. And, and people will just believe you.
People will just straight up believe you. And it doesn't matter. And no one will check them.
Nick Shirley, the Trump has influenced a lot about his visa to invent a kidnapping in Cuba.
So yeah, aren't you an un-fuckable game or two wait gamers can't have kids I just seen
a clip of you saying gamers can't have kids because they like games didn't you once play
video games all the time on stream does that mean you're un-fuckable and can't have kids.
How does this happen to a person how how does this happen to a guy who's been following
This is 2021. When did this guy become so cringe? How does this, how genuinely asking
how this be, how this is a thing? Okay. Are you an unbelievable, how do you get one shot
it by like a power farmers, like a clip channels? How do you get one shot it by clip channels?
What the fuck has happened to the goddamn literacy rate? Brother, are you a fucking
right wing incel who plays a video game and then thinks, Oh my God, there's a baby in
this video game, and therefore obviously all of the Fimoids are gonna finally fuck me. Are
you one of those guys? Because if you're not one of those guys, then I'm not talking about
you, okay? Shut the fuck up. Oh my God! Oh my God! 13 months subscriber, dude. It wasn't,
it definitely wasn't a clip channel. It was shoe on heads video and your take on Pragmata.
Reading comprehension is at an all-time low. Reading comprehension is at an all-time low.
isn't an all-time low, critical thinking isn't an all-time low. It's, this is,
brother, brother. We can't be making fun of Nick Shirley
if you have the brain processing power of Nick Shirley, okay?
Do any of these people know you are slush playing pragmatic and you don't hate it?
No, these people don't know anything and it doesn't matter. This guy is in his fucking feelings. Okay, that's what happened
He got personally offended and now he misunderstood or
Watched someone professionally misunderstand the point I was making he got personally offended and now he wants to come in here
And fucking cry about it. Okay?
The narrative here, I'm not personally offended, but I've never played the game. It's your take on other people dog
I'm giving you what the take is, okay? You can't do this. You can't do this thing where I'm like the person
Who's take you have misunderstood?
This is not how conversation works. Okay, we need to fix this. We need to fix this problem
Conversations don't work this way. Okay, you don't get to slam whatever your perspective is on whatever the fuck
I've said I'm the main person here, right?
like we're discussing what I was talking about. If we're discussing what I was talking about,
look, you're still doing it. You're still doing it. Okay. You're still doing it. Listen to my words.
Okay. If you're asking me what my perspective is, okay,
Okay. Let me explain it to you and then you can maybe decide that it's not for you or
maybe it is for you. Okay.
When the game pragmatic came out and there's a little baby in the game, a lot of these
weird gross right wing incel oftentimes neo-nazi losers decided to make a point about how this
game was somehow going to increase the birth rates. And what I said to those weird incel
unfuckable right-wing Nazi losers is that if you're a weird incel
weirdo gamer
you don't have to worry about
increasing the birth rates because you're unfuckable anyway. This is not a conversation for you
but of course many of those right-wing incel weirdo chuds
immediately seized on that and said oh hasan is coming after gamers
Which in and of itself is already a silly conversation, right?
Like if someone were to turn around and be like, I'm personally offended. I'm a gamer. I can't believe you're saying this
Well, then you're kind of a fucking loser. I'll be honest
Okay, my point is if you're talking about women's biological clocks
Then this is probably not for you, there's the context I was expecting
Buddy, you didn't come in here expecting context. You came in here with accusations. Okay? Stop.
And not only that, but you also got duped by a person with no discernible political worldview who
just, you know, goes back and forth on whatever the trendy popular, um, algorithmically popular
political agenda is. We can't have this. Okay. We can't have this. We have to be fucking normal.
Um, I, I despise the, the, I despise the, the political discourse that takes place on the
internet so fucking much. Okay? You can't get duped by algorithmic hustlers, okay? You
cannot get duped by these fucking morons. Please. Half the people in the chat, now you're
attacking the people in the chat. No, I've been watching you long enough that you don't
usually judge people for dumb reasons and I came off, and I came off judgmental. Dude,
Are you a mega chud who says video games are actually going to improve the birth rates?
Do you care about improving the birth rates of, of maybe certain races over others?
Okay.
If that's the case, then yeah, my conversation is about you.
My statements are about you.
Okay.
That's it.
But this idea that like gamers are the most oppressed minority ass bullshit is, is so stupid.
The ones attacking me as I've been around long enough, man, a defender, dark shot, color,
people are pulling my understanding of vibration cause alright buddy if you've
been around long enough and you got duped by one fucking video where you're
like well this seems really fucked up he hates gamers I don't know what to tell
you you got to you know dial it back in a little bit
anyway
these people are too dumb to be in our movement brother look around okay that's
just how it is okay the people are getting dumber and dumber every single
fucking day and not only that but the people do get duped they just do they
get duped with ease I didn't really think that we would be at this stage in
discourse cycle where like people are still complaining about my takes on
gamers I can't believe it aren't you a gamer I feel betrayed it's like if you
made being a gamer a core party or identity and you feel like you're under
attack as a gamer I don't know what to tell you you are at the precipice of like
at the precipice of be becoming a an unvarnished reactionary
Out of context losing me pretty OP. Yeah, but this one is also not even like a relevant conversation
The DSA has condemned you yeah, I saw that
Looks like a Sama hunter straight it in one DSA cap for another all jokes. I thank you for supporting all DSA candidates
Everyone donate to our socialist slate. Let's get some working-class heroes in Congress
Yeah friendship ended with New York City DSA now Philly DSA is my best friend. It's true
If you've heard of this weird ass centrist chud, what, Chunky Weigert, Shaky Gerga?
Yeah, I know Shaky Gerga.
Dude, this is goat talk in some respects, okay?
You got Chunk Weigert going toe to toe.
You got Chunk Weigar going toe-to-toe with Sean Ryan. Okay. Let me tell you something.
Let me tell you something in many respects. This is also go talk.
New York City.
those hats are back-ordered because of your support? Good.
Talking about gaming, I have a phone little fact that you may be interested in today. We're
40 days away from the 5th anniversary of the peak of the stream, Hasan defeating the nameless
king on stream. Hell yeah.
Sometimes you wonder what the dynamic on the internet commentary looks like and what happened
to the half of the other people that fell deeper into the hole, but then you realize that that
half was a generation that got hooked onto it and can barely function in the real world.
Yeah, I just don't, I don't know. I don't know what it is that like is so enduring. I don't know
what it is that's so alluring about, you know, outrage merchants on the internet that have no
real political interest, no real advocacy, no ideology, nothing at all. And they just, all they
do is just like do people and jiggle keys in front of them and people fall into it every
single time. They're like, oh my God. I don't know if it's like COVID. I don't know if that's
the problem here. But like this is what I'm talking about. Look at this. Pragmata is straight
up one-shotting women's ovaries and turning men into instant dazzle. Now suddenly the
birthrate crisis as a new hero. Like a guy that writes stuff like this is never for the
rest of their lives ever gonna be around a woman. Okay? They're just not. Like it's
so gross. It's so disgusting. Just play the fucking video game, dude. What the fuck is
wrong with you? Jesus Christ. This is what I'm talking about. And people are so, they're
so in their fucking feelings. This is who you're defending. This is the position you're
defending. Do you associate yourself with this guy?
that a right-wing account? Yeah, it's another one of those like fucking Nazis, dude. Of course.
People who talk like this unironically have never interacted with a woman in their lives.
That was my point. Like, you have, you have instantly one-shotted yourself, okay? You have
shown everyone with more than three working brain cells that you are never gonna fuck,
Okay, it's not happening for you. You're cooked.
It's never going to happen for you. You should stop posting like this immediately.
Sheld the account. Go out in the real world, hit the gym.
Start socializing with real human beings in the real world. You're fucked.
Okay.
It's so crazy. I can't believe we're so far past 2016 era woke one and yet people still
do this kind of weird chirping where someone will be like man our trash is someone go
Oh, I'm a man. Are you saying I'm trash? I'm under attack. It's like, dude, God, you're
such a bitch. Okay. Fuck. Please stop. Stop crying. It's so it's so lame. Oh God. I can't
stand motherfuckers who do this like the self victimization. Gamers are oppressed. Men are
oppressed. They are by class. Okay, that's it. They're not oppressed on the
virtues of being a man. Okay. Stop complaining. Be a man.
Not up or shut up. Sack up. It's gross. Nobody wants to hear you complain like
that. Nobody wants to hear you fucking cry. But sometimes it's okay to cry. You
can let your emotions out, okay? Just not in this direction. If you just played World
of Warcraft for only things, you would have made every gamer a socialist by now. Yeah,
I doubt it. Are you going to have Claire Valdez on the stream, buddy? You're a couple months
too late for that. I have already done that. As a matter of fact, it was like right after her
announcement. Already happened.
Um, whoops. Sorry, bro. Law. No, it's all good. She's dope. I love Claire.
Um, I was at an event that she was at the other night, uh, when I was in New York and
I should have asked her, I was like, are you wearing yo G's?
And she was like, no, what's that?
Cause her fits looks so yo G. Have you guys noticed that?
Her fits always look like she got yo G. I'm a modos on, but it's not.
She's not wearing yo G. Um, but she has like, I've never, I've never seen someone.
I've never seen someone look so dripped out
in a very specific style.
I mean, look, look at this, look at this, look at this.
Here, it was fashion time, okay?
It's fashion stream time.
I know this is like the most annoying thing for chatters,
but like, if you look at her, if you look at her fits,
let's see, like, if you look at her fits usually,
if you look at her fits usually like her her regular fits that she wears
Like here. This is the Bernie Sanders one. Let me see if I can find it down to the glasses to the glasses look very yo-ji to
Literally your worst quality. No offense. I love your output
Like with the pants
With the pants, the glasses, the white button-up shirt is very Yoji.
Yoji Yamamoto.
Asana can't do yesterday's combo again.
If these shadows pop off on the arts, I'm going to crash out.
Anyway, Trump is just demented.
Trump's has four or five sniper skills, 42,000 Iranian protesters, nice.
Graham Plattener, President Bush invading Iraq in 2002.
Okay, this is going to piss people off.
Okay.
I don't want to hear it. This is outside of fashion. This is the second most contested
subject matter on the house and I'll be broadcast. Okay. It's like Graham Plattner, Graham Plattner's
background and whether he's a real one or not. And also Graham Plattner's background and fashion,
two of the most contested subject, uh, two of the most contested subjects on the,
on, on the freaking Hassanabe broadcast is terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible. Oh God.
Don't watch this one. Okay. Well, now I have to click on it.
What the fuck? What the fuck was that?
The first one was like, oh, I just hit the level up.
What's up, yo? Hey, yo, what? What is he doing?
Bro, this is a, you know how like famously when president or presidential nominees
would always go to the Iowa fair and they get snapped eating a hot dog. That's the only
time you're supposed to see presidents in a freaky setting, okay?
Back in the day, we had decorum. Back in the day, the only time you saw someone who's running
for president or someone who is the president in a freaky ass circumstance, specifically
at the Iowa fair when they're downing a glizzy, okay?
With Donald Trump, everything has changed. With Donald Trump, he's being freaky multiple
times a day. Multiple times a day throughout the day, he's being freaky on all the time.
I mean, look at this. That should never, call me old fashioned, maybe it's cuz I'm wearing
the suit. But I don't think we should ever see an American president in this situation,
okay? I do not think we should ever see an American president make these kinds of noises,
behave like this.
He's freaky as hell. Are we sure this one is real, dude? Is that what you're talking
Donald Trump, absolutely disgusting. Play it again. You got it.
I don't want to hear a single person say should like Biden sniff kids anymore. This man is
the actual president? Is Max the actual predator? Yes. Yeah, this shit ain't AI, man. This shit
ain't AI. You know what I have to say to that?
I'm gonna come. I'm gonna come. I'm gonna come. I don't know what I'm doing, man. This is supposed
be serious political commentary, okay? This is supposed to be, we do serious political commentary
here, okay? Before we get to Nick Shitley in Cuba, what else was I going to show you guys?
What else was going on? Oh, this. Yeah. Watch the latest fear and watch the latest fear and
Okay. That's all I got to say. Uh, that right there is a new soundboard clip.
This is my Schumer Israel. First is we're spending tens of thousands of dollars trying
to cancel chat. Tens of thousands. We know that the, the anti-Hassan brigade, even on the Cuomo
versus Zoran mayoral race was like a couple million for the record. So we know it's not
tens of thousands. It's been a lot, a lot, it's been a much larger sum than that.
This is why Mersheimer won't come on the stream. Stop. That's why I'm wearing the suit. This
This is like a very, this is, this is, I'm wearing the Mersheimer fit for that reason.
Okay.
I'm wearing this so that he sees me for who I am.
He sees me for who I am and he, he recognizes that I'm also an international relations offensive
realist.
Okay.
I am also an offensive realism guy, the goat Mersheimer, please come on the broadcast.
I love offensive realism. I believe in it, okay? You see this. Look at me. I look like
a young, I look like a young Mersheimer. I love the University of Chicago.
Hasan, you just did the, I'm gonna come with Trump doing that in the background. Be so
for real. Okay. We, I contain multitudes. Okay. I contain multitudes. What is wrong with you guys?
Why can't we have both? Why can't you get, why can't we get ourselves a political commentator
that can do both? You know what I mean? Every single day I tell people there are genuine offensive
realism and drawers out there and they're all like, wow, has Mershammer been on their show?
And I'm like not on all their shows. Thank you. Thank you for keeping up with the offensive realist school of thought
Okay, young merch does kind of fuck
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I'm not trying to be a nasty smell, but I think you should really check this guy out his content is outstanding
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Like way back in the day when they were just an Instagram channel that would do
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Some socialist anti imperialist commentary
All right, where were we
Do we have a oh wait, do we have the playlist is
There a playlist you guys send me a playlist
Or no, all you did. Okay, I didn't see it here. Let's take a look. All right, live White House press briefing with Marco Rubio
When that when that gets started we'll go to it for the time being though the ceasefire on the brink of
Collapse ladies and gentlemen, it's already collapsed. Let's be real
but the very fact that
that the very fact that the ceasefire is on the brink of collapse and not officially considered
to have collapsed is an interesting predicament because obviously Iran is firing right now.
America, yesterday, forced through what they claim is two ships, but we only have proof
for one ship through the Strait of Hormuz.
transited ships through the Strait of Hormuz, okay? An American flagship nonetheless. And
Maersk confirmed at least one of these two ships. St. Comps said there's two. Maersk
said there's one at least. Now, obviously that doesn't mean anything. It's ultimately
meaningless considering that approximately 100 ships transit through the Strait of Hormuz
when there's no impediments to the traffic, right? When there's no blockade, when there's
no toll system, whatever. However, it is somewhat consequential. And in the aftermath of that,
Iran started peppering some of these other ships, and also started lasering the United Arab Emirates.
What does this mean? Well, under normal circumstances, this is supposed to imply that the ceasefire is
over. However, the United States of America decided actually the ceasefire is not over,
and Pete Hegzett this morning, as a matter of fact said, the ceasefire is not over and that it
holds. Now, this is a unique situation for the United Arab Emirates, because from their perspective,
the ceasefire is gone, because they had their Fajr reports get bombed yesterday, and as a
As a matter of fact, Iran has started bombing the United Arab Emirates again.
Why has Iran done this?
Why the United Arab Emirates and why not the rest of the Gulf?
Why the United Arab Emirates and why not Israel, for example?
Well, the answer is simple.
It's because the United Arab Emirates has now officially let their position be known
that they are basically an extension of Israel and the United States of America.
They're staging US assets.
They left OPEC Plus and they thought that they could lean further and further into their
allegiance with the United States of America.
And this has left them out in a unique predicament because they thought that the United States
of America would defend the United Arab Emirates. This was foolish. I could have told you that
this was a foolish decision. As a matter of fact, I did explain how foolish this decision
was when the United Arab Emirates initially left OPEC. Plus, I said they're leaning further
into, this is a desperate gamble. They're leaning further into Western influence instead of
having some kind of autonomy with the rest of the Gulf states and maybe behaving like
a regional power, a regional coalition and trying to deal with Iran directly, they're
going in the opposite direction, they're going in the opposite direction and they're, you
know, choosing America.
So now they're left defenseless.
Now what's interesting about this is they were already left defenseless because of American
Israel's actions from the start. So very dumb decision by the United Arab Emirates. We'll
see where this goes. Why isn't Oman getting the same treatment? UAE aren't troops there
becoming a place to try to crack over in the straight? No. Not covering the Indiana state
state primaries today. Looks like it might be upset for Trump. No, I will be. I will
be getting to the Indiana state primaries. Donald Trump is, is doing what? Wow. Great
viewers telling me to kill themselves. Brother, stop listening to the other viewers. Okay.
Just enjoy the show on your own. Please. Oh my God. Big dog, big dog. Mr. Corvus. Okay.
forget to give unsalted peanuts to the crows. Okay. And chatter. Stop telling. I don't even
know if chatters are doing this, but just stop being mean to the, to the singled out
chatters, okay? Hard-boiled eggs, hard-boiled eggs and unsalted peanuts, okay? That's what
we're feeding the crows at the park. Mr. Corvus, Mr. Corvus, have you spoken about the plan
to purchase spirit air 132 million already pledged. Yeah, I'm going to buy it myself.
All right. America's makes jokes. So we can safely presume that Iran is now entitled to hit the UAE
as much as it wants without it being considered a ceasefire violation.
So, the situation, like America forcibly transiting ships with their naval assets through the
Shadahar Moose, obviously, was going up the escalation ladder rather than negotiating
with Iran, right?
So when they did that, they opened up the war conversation once again.
They decided they gave reasonable ground to the IRGC to fight back militarily, both against
American assets and certainly against some of the countries in the region that are cooperating
with this initiative, the United Arab Emirates specifically.
So now Iran has opened fire again.
But the United States of America can't recognize this as an end to the ceasefire because for
For two reasons, one or three reasons, technically market munitions midterms, right?
And also, one fourth reason, Beijing.
Because Donald Trump is supposed to be going to Beijing in the next nine days.
There's a summit that's supposed to happen in Beijing, it was supposed to happen last
month.
It got pushed back because of the Iran quagmire that Trump is in.
So he needs to wrap up the Iran situation before he flies out to Beijing or push it
back further.
Okay? And the problem from his perspective is it's not, they're not fixing the issue
at all. They could technically move in the direction of a ceasefire, but that would mean
offering concessions to the Iranian side, which they have to do because Iran has the
leverage. The only other alternative here is to escalate militarily, which is what
the American side is doing currently. And that's only going to extend the conflict.
That's only going to force Iran to also go up the escalation ladder, because they have
to hold on to military deterrence.
So that's where we're at currently. That is where we're at presently. But this also
has put the united arab emirates position in in uh... it this is also left the united arab emirates
completely defenseless
now from the perspective of the iranian side
they keep bombing the united arab emirates and the american side keeps claiming that the ceasefire is
holding
as in
the ceasefire conditions no longer cover the united arab emirates
ultimate cock status for the ua e
there in the god damn cock chair
okay
so let's take a look at how good morning america's covering the story
with the fragile four weeks ceasefire between the u.s and iran on the brink of
collapse iran striking out at its neighbors after the u.s announced it
would help safely guide some of the sixteen hundred stranded commercial
ships through the straight of four moves
The ceasefire is not over.
Ultimately, this is a separate and distinct project.
And we expected there would be some churn
at the beginning, which happened.
And we said we would defend it and defend aggressively.
Video circulating on social media,
showing flames reaching into the sky
from a port in the United Arab Emirates
after Iran struck an oil facility.
The first major attack on a US regional ally
since the ceasefire went into effect.
The UAE, saying their air defense systems have engaged at least 12 ballistic missiles,
three cruise missiles, and four drones.
The tension comes as the U.S. is attempting to break the week's long traffic jam in the
strait through which 20 percent of the world's oil passes.
The administration, saying two U.S.-flagged commercial ships were able to make it through.
Iran responding.
Iranian state media, airing these images, claiming to show the Iranian military firing
warning shots at US Navy ships near the strait.
The head of Central Command, Admiral Brad Cooper, telling reporters the US was able
to fend off the attacks, sinking six Iranian small military boats.
The cruise missiles were going after both US Navy ships, but mostly after commercial
shipping.
We suspended the book ourselves and consistent with our commitment, we suspended all the
entrepreneurship.
In another incident, a commercial South Korean vessel was targeted.
In a phone call with our Jonathan Carl, President Trump saying it was not heavy firing and
claiming we have it under control.
Like, you understand that America does this, right?
America kick starts the process, the tit for tat once again.
They go up the escalation ladder, Iran follows them up the escalation ladder, and then they
choose to not recognize that the war is back on for political reasons.
That gives a lot more moving, that gives a lot more room for Iran to maneuver, to navigate,
and to also continue pummeling the rest of the Gulf if they choose to do so.
Okay, especially because now they can continue escalating and make Trump acknowledge that
the ceasefire is off the table.
For the rest of the world, for the rest of the world that's paying close attention to
what's going on in the shade of Hormuz, Trump's statements on this ceasefire holding are even
less worthy than they possibly would have been a couple months ago because they see
that ships can't transit.
They see one American carrier or one American destroyer crossing the strait with one ship,
and then they see a whole bunch of other ships get peppered by the Iranian go fast boats,
and they realize that the strait of Hormuz is actually not open.
And that also, that also diminishes the confidence that people have in what the American government
is saying even further.
So now he looks even sillier than he did before.
The other, we win, adding, I always win.
The war has now lasted more than twice as long as the president and others in the administration
first predicted and not only is there no end in sight, the ceasefire itself is in question
with Iran's chief negotiator this morning blaming the U.S. because of its blockade of
the strait and saying we know full well that the continuation of the status quo is intolerable
for America while we have not even begun yet.
George?
it's thanks. Can I ask you about around, Mr. President? Yes. They fired at US ships several
times the last 24 hours. What do they need to do to violate the ceasefire? Well, you...
I mean, that's awesome. What can they do? What would you consider a violation of the
ceasefire because clearly they're firing, and we are firing too. But obviously that's expected,
right? Obviously it's expected that America and Israel continue firing during a ceasefire.
That's usually how things go. But what's unexpected is that the other side continues the fire.
And now Trump is the one who's saying, you fell off. How has this hate train led the more viewers?
What do you mean? We do have more viewers.
Why am I responding to this shit? Okay, let's continue.
You'll find out because I'll let you know.
They know what to do and they know what to do.
They know what not to do more importantly actually and
you know they fired them in little boats with peace shooters you know,
to peace shooters you wouldn't vote, you know why?
Because they don't have any boats anymore.
It is pretty funny that he's doing this alongside like a bunch of children
a classic Trump just get whoever's sitting next to you to have to sit through this process where
you're like answering questions from the media in an adversarial tone where you're like you're
stupid you're a lot of dummies many of you are stupid Iran they got little boats but they don't
have little boats no longer they got they had the big boats we blew them up and then the little boats
Also, am I crazy or does he look extra shit today?
He looks shittier.
He looks worse than usual.
I don't know what's going on with big dog here.
Maybe as comprised of, they call them little boats, and they're fast, they're so fast
that they're eight of them and they're all gone, and they're fast, but they're not fast
like a missile, a missile is slightly faster, they're all gone, so they're looking around
for little boats to try and compete with our great navy.
We have a navy that's unbelievable.
You know when you set up a blockade as you know very well not one ship couple tried and they got their engine shut out
You remember I think it was one of them. It was a great display
A ship wanting to go through a break the blockade. They were warned not to and then they were warned again by a young
Annapolis captain of the ship
with a
Great look central casting these people are central casting I'll tell you and he said don't do it
And then he said, evacuate your engine
over this unbelievable loudspeaker that goes over water.
He said, you have 10 seconds, evacuate.
And then from four miles with one bullet,
it went right into the engine.
And Gary, the ship stopped very quickly.
They hit the engine with one shot.
It wasn't a missile.
They don't want to waste a missile on it.
It's too easy.
And we had another one, a 2000,
one of the biggest ships in the world.
They were warned, and he said, go back now, go back right now.
You will be shot at within 10 seconds.
Yes, yes, I am going back to Iran.
I am going back, and that was the end of that, but he went.
It took him 10 miles to tell the ship was so big, but they respect us.
They didn't used to respect us, but they respect us more than we've ever been respected.
Yeah, it's a real clear sign of respect when the opposition has restarted military actions,
and you're the one who's denying that that's even taking place, because the recognition
of the ceasefire is no longer holding due to your actions, ironically enough, would mean
that, um, that we're back to square one and things are worse than they were prior, uh,
to the ceasefire beginning.
Oh, Trump on the Iranian economy.
He says, I hope it fails.
When Iran is seeing 50% inflation, they've moved money from the side of the economy.
Would you allow their financial system then to fail?
I guess so, because we'll make it a fail.
I hope it fails, you know why?
Because I want to win.
Well, it's getting pounded on by the military, I think, for more.
But in addition to that, there, it is failing.
We have sanctions on them, tremendous sanctions, Scott Best.
I hope it fails.
It seems like a hope and a dream, huh?
We don't really have much else, I guess.
Marco Rubio is live.
All right.
Go into the future.
Doesn't seem to be like he's live. I don't know why chatter said that.
Classic, classic chatter bait.
Little Margo not live yet.
It's not a great job. We have sanctions that nobody's ever seen before.
No, they're failing. Their currency is worthless.
Their inflation is probably 150 percent. The real number is 150 percent.
uh they aren't paying their soldiers they can't pay their soldiers the money is worthless
you know they should do this much thing you know they should do this what is this
echo echo echo orange man bad orange man bad y'all some ousis
explain to me what trump has done for you right now go ahead you have the stage
if you are an american especially because most people that do this on twitch are usually asmmong
gold chatters who are larping as American MAGA supporters from Europe, but if you're
an American citizen, do you enjoy the extra price that you have to pay at the pump? Has
he solved the inflation crisis? Do you have better job prospects? No, none of these things
have happened. Yep. Really? Oh, so you are enjoying paying extra at the gas pump. You're
You're a cuck, you're a fucking cuck, don't need him, don't need what.
Buddy, do you think, do you think you live outside of the global economy where you're
like, oh, I don't have to drive?
Let's say you don't have to drive, okay?
Do you think that extra paying extra at the pump is not going to cause you to pay extra
for it?
Can you ban me?
No, I'm not going to ban you.
What the fuck?
Do it daddy.
What the fuck is going on?
I mean, do Trump supporters have a humiliation king? Is that what it is? Or they're like,
he likes being cucked. He's like, no, I voted for this. I love being cucked. I love that
my, the president that I voted for, the no new wars president that I voted for is doing
all of the wars
and he is a
uh... a a flesh puppet for israel i love that
that's my favorite thing
why because it's what owning the lives brother it's owning you as well
he's owning everybody
now let's see what this fucking dickhead has to say
commercial crew members of the stranded out at sea
because iran is conducting something that's not just criminal
it's criminal for sure but it's desperate and destructive it's so funny
because we're also implementing a blockade so whatever iran is doing
we're doing as well not even engaged
in any military hostilities
are now at risk not just of losing their cargo
uh... but the lives of their own citizens
because of this blockade
these ships you know you don't leave a ship out there for this long you start
running out of food
you start running out of potable water essential supplies
and they're at the mercy of this piracy
what it is. It's piracy. And not only that, but some of them have seen, you know, been
open fire on and rained down senseless attacks on several civilian ships already. So frankly,
the way to put it, these are innocent bystanders. These are countries that and ships and so
forth that have nothing to do with any of this and nonetheless are being caught in the
middle of it and being held hostage merely because Iran could do that just because of,
just as the regime brutally slaughtered tens of thousands of their own citizens for the
crime of peaceful protest because they're unhappy with the quality of life or the lack of quality
of life in Iran today. And so they're sitting ducks. They're isolated. They're starving.
They're vulnerable. And at least 10 sailors have already died as a result of the civilian
sailors. So already many nations privately and some publicly have asked the United States
to help free their ships and to restore freedom of navigation in the streets of Armoos and
this critical artery of global trade. And so President Trump, as he always does, stepped
up and answer the calls for their help and he's directed the United States military to
guide these stranded ships to safety to provide a protective bubble under which they can operate
and move products and get themselves out of there and out of the harm's way.
And this is the first step towards reopening the strait and bringing this regime's last
ditch act of economic arson, bringing that to a close.
Only we're doing it not only because we were asked but because we're the only ones who
can.
of the power to sort of take the steps that we've taken now.
Under this president, under President Trump,
the United States will help our friends.
We're going to stand up to rogue regimes
like the one in Tehran.
And we're going to be unashamed to use our power
and our abilities to project military power
in the service of our national interests above all else.
Now, what's really important for you to report and for everyone
to understand is this is not an offensive operation.
This is a defensive operation.
And what that means is very simple.
There's no shooting unless we're shot at first.
Okay, we're not attacking them.
But if they are attacking us, or they're attacking a ship,
you need to respond to that.
You're not gonna let some fast boat come up on a ship
and shoot it up.
We're gonna respond to it, and we've been successful at it.
I don't know what the exact number is,
but I know a number of those fast boats
have now been targeted, and will continue to be.
They pose a threat to our forces.
We'll shoot down drones, we'll shoot down missiles,
but it's defensive in nature.
This is defensive.
So if you hear stories about attacks-
Just like it was defensive initially
when we attacked Iran for no reason.
We are only responding if attacked first.
This is an offensive operation.
And that's what's occurring here.
Brother, what is this fucking argument?
This is approximately a quarter of the world.
There was a ceasefire.
There was a negotiation.
Volumes of fuel and fertilizer that
operate through the Straits of Hormuz.
The Iranian regime cannot be allowed to dictate
who uses this vital waterway.
I don't think this is also being reported enough.
Maybe you are reporting.
I don't read everyone.
I don't make damn outlets yet.
I don't know who you all are.
I mean, I know who some of you are, but not all of you are.
But I will say this about it.
This is an international waterway.
This is an international waterway.
And international law is very clear.
And I love it, because everybody always
talks about international law on this.
International law on this is very clear.
International waterways, no country can control them.
There is no international law that allows you to say,
I'm going to put mines in an international body of water,
and I'm going to blow up ships that don't listen to us
and try to go through.
That's what Iran is doing.
This is a criminal act.
And someone needs to do something about it.
Something needs to be done.
It's completely illegal, completely illegitimate,
and completely unacceptable.
And that's why the United States military
is guiding stranded commercial ships safely
through the street and is working
to restore freedom of navigation and putting an end
to these efforts to hold the global economy hostage.
So far, as a proof of concept and as a proof of function,
two US flag merchant ships have successfully
transferred the Strait of Hormuz in the first stages
of this project, and they're now safely on their way.
the u.s. military is deploying the necessary assets to extend this defensive
umbrella over commercial shipping
but there should be no mistake
and as i said this area this is a defensive operation i want to reiterate
that point this is important to understand
if no shots are fired at the ships and those shots are fired at us
we're not firing shots but if we're fired on we will respond and we will respond
with lethal efficiency
there is a supporting this project but i'm old enough to remember when there
was a time when ships could transit through the straight of hormones on
impeded. But you know, long gone are those old days. Okay. I just I can remember a time it was
like 60 days ago, maybe 60 or so. They could just do that for free. We're talking about you know,
some of these things look like Boston whalers. Okay, so these are not like Navy ships. But
nonetheless, they come fast at these boats, try to swarm them, try to harm them. We're not going
to let that happen. So seven of them now sit at the bottom of the sea, along with by the way,
the rest of Iran's Navy. That's where you can find their Navy today. And we're going
to continue to systematically clear this passageway through the Straits to restore freedom of
navigation. Now, while this project steadily progresses, Operation Epic Fury, Economic
Fury, I'm sorry, continues to impose maximum pressure on the Iranian regime and what remains
of their already frail economy. Today, inflation in Iran is 70 percent, and their currency
is in total completely free from.
heli i think it's enforcement is stepping up it's more well stepped with
the name of god america the most powerful nation on earth city thank god we
are capable of doing that treat revenue
it directly targets the regime's primary revenue life lifelines
the blockade alone
is costing iran as much as five hundred
million dollars a day
and lost revenue
ninety percent of total iranian trade has been halted
causing permanent damage to iran's oil infrastructure as wells are forced
to shut in again all of this is in response
to their piracy
it cannot be that you have the straights
and they blow up any ship that moves in the only ship to get to go through
where there is you can have a situation in which the straights are close to
everyone else
but they benefit from the piracy that can happen
that's why the blockade is in place
and that's why the sanctions are crippling them
any foreign financial and the by the way treasuries now
identifying cutting off every dollar of revenue that's flowing to this regime
and so
look any foreign financial institution or commercial actor
that enables Iran sanctions evasion
is going to face secondary sanctions exposure
and a loss of access to the US financial system.
As President Trump has said, and the facts clearly bear out,
the United States of America holds all the cards.
There is no scenario here in which
if they decide to join a ladder of escalation,
they wind up getting the last say.
But our preference is for these straits to be opened,
to the way they're supposed to be opened,
back to the way it was.
Anyone can use it, no mines in the water,
nobody paying tolls that's what we have to get back to a natural here
every day the conflict continues are our leverage on iran will continue to
increase
and their position will continue to weaken especially as the blockade really
begins to buy in conjunction with the sanctions
so what the times come for a lot to make a sensible choice
and it's not easy for them to do that obviously because they have a fracture
in their own leadership system
apart from that i mean the top people in that government there
to say the least uh...
everything that they're saying scope
and it could be a better representative of the united states of america
difficult because it's hard to get past that in the system but
it's important for them to make a sensible choice in the one that's right
for their people
the president yes the idea that like iran is suffering from inflation i mean
it's true they are but the reason why they're saying that is because we also
have an inflation problem here in america so they're basically trying to
be like well they're in a worse situation overall
they're trying to change the standard between
um... the iranian economy and how long they can
uh... holdout
versus the globe instead of the iranian economy versus the rest of the globe
they're trying to change the the conversation to
how long the american economy can hold as opposed to the iranian economy
and obviously that's not the predicament at hand here
okay
that's not the american economy can withstand uh... uh... shit on more
damage
uh... in comparison to iranian economy
we are completely isolated not know i love
we're completely isolated for the rest of the world in many in in a very
meaningful ways when it comes to be an oil exporter for example
the reality of the matter is all is a global commodity
it is uh... it has in elastic demand
and therefore were not as isolated plus on top of that
are supposed to be the safeguard of the rest of the world were supposed to
ensure that all of these uh...
all of these strategic choke points are open at all times is the whole point of
being the hegemon.
This is a long-standing problem for them, right?
I mean, they have always said they don't want a nuclear weapon.
That's because they've always said that they just don't mean it.
And why do you say, well, how do you know they don't mean it?
Well, we don't mean it because they're doing all the things,
and historically, have tried to do all the things that you do
if you want a nuclear weapons program.
For example, they innovate and try
to innovate long-range delivery missiles that now, in some cases,
are capable of reaching much of Europe.
They build these large underground centrifuges
for enrichment activity.
There are many, there are countries in the world
that are involved in the enrichment business,
but these guys do it in mountains, and in caves,
and in hiding.
They've always had secret components
of their nuclear program undisclosed to the world.
And we know for a fact that they retain
highly enriched uranium at 60%, that they did so.
And that has no civilian use, none, zero whatsoever.
So they have an opportunity here to agree to something
that will make it clear that they're not interested in new.
One thing is to say we don't want a nuclear weapon.
And another thing is to do the things that prove
you don't want a nuclear weapon.
And by the way, if what Iran wants is a civilian nuclear program for power plants and stuff
like that, there are a lot of countries in the world that have that, and they don't enrich.
They import the enriched material, you know, they could have that if that's what they wanted,
but they're not acting like that's what they wanted, they're acting like they want a military,
you know, nuclear program.
That's unacceptable.
So that's the process we're engaged in now, to create, that's the object of this diplomacy,
is to come up with some level of understanding about what are the topics that they've agreed
to negotiate on. We don't have to have the actual agreement written out. One day this
is highly complex and highly technical. But we have to have a diplomatic solution that
is very clear about the topics that they are willing to negotiate on and the extent and
the concessions they're willing to make at the front end in order to make those talks
worthwhile. That's what Stephen Jarrett and the whole team is working on. And I hope to
have good news on it. That's the outcome we would prefer. That's the outcome we would
have preferred a year ago. That's the outcome I think most of us would have preferred a
a long time ago but that's not the option they've given us given their activity
all right can i there's no way i can figure out who to call on i'm just
gonna like press right in the middle right there you're right there yeah
in the back road thank you thank you mr president i'll go to you next time
all right go ahead thank you thank you secretary
you're going right welcome to the lighthouse what's that
talking to you sir yeah to you yes sir thank you i have two questions on two
separate issues that come up do they get two questions for these two questions
There's a lot of people in here.
There's a whole lot of your umbrellas.
All right, well, you can ask me two questions.
I'll give you one answer.
Thank you very much.
And I'll pick the one I like better.
Thank you, Mr. Secretary.
The first has to do with the blockade.
There are lawmakers from both parties who claim the blockade
is an act of war.
What do you say to that?
And my second question has to do with the fuel embargo of Cuba.
How long, Mr. Secretary, will that last?
OK, two things.
All right.
Oh, god.
I'll ask you a question, because I like the second one, too.
the first one on the side and so why do we have a blockade we have a blockade
because they are shut down the streets
so i don't know which members of congress you're talking to you but here's
what i would ask them i would ask everybody here very simple
these guys have shut down the streets of our moves this is what iran is saying
we will shut down the story even the primary cause iranian protest in the
world can go through unless we allow you to go through and you have to pay us
but our ships can go through meaning the iranian ships as much as they want
that's crazy who would agree to that
so how are we gonna have a situation where they get to close the streets to
everybody and the only people who are allowed to go through there a hundred
percent without paying anything it's literally no you politics don't it's no
you know we get to do it too you don't get to do it we get to do it politics like
that's crazy it's like a baby we have a normalize the fact that they get to blow
up commercial ships and put mines in the water so the response to that is we're
gonna blockade your ships if everyone ships are not getting out your ships are
not getting out either that's not an act boy that's a defensive measure it's a
counter to what they have decided to do you know what is an active war putting
mines in the water. Why don't the members of Congress, whoever it is, is complaining
about it. They should be all over that. These guys put mines in the water. That alone, mining
in the water is illegal period under any circumstances and they've done it. But this is crazy stuff.
But this is what they've done on Cuba. Oil blockade on Cuba. There's no oil blockade
on Cuba per se. Here's what's happening. Yes, there is. Yes, there is free oil from Venezuela.
I used to give them a bunch of free oil. That's crazy. Like 60% of that. Why can't next go
oil tankers. Why can't Mexico send oil tankers? Why can't Canada send oil tankers? Why can't
any country send oil tankers? Why did you intercept Russian oil tankers initially? Well, prices
are no one's giving away free oil, much less to a failed regime. So the problem with Cuba
is worse. Their economic model doesn't work. It doesn't work. Oh my God, this is like, this
is unbelievably evil and also not even a good fucking argument. It's never free. Cuba has
the money to pay for anything worse than a communist is an incompetent one and
that's what so incompetent communist run that country oh really don't and we have
90 miles from our shores a failed state that also happens to be friendly
territory for some of our adversaries so it's an unacceptable status quo I will
be addressing it but not today okay right there
you are going to the Vatican to me with the pope is this in attempt to smooth
things over with the Pope given the rhetoric between President Trump and
Scalia? No, I mean it's a trip we had planned from before and obviously we had
some stuff that happened and no look there's a lot to talk about with the
Vatican. I'll give you one example the Pope just returned from a trip to
Africa where the church is growing very vibrantly and we have shared concerns
about religious freedom religious freedom in different parts of the world.
We'd love to talk to them about that. The topic of Cuba you know we gave Cuba
six million dollars of humanitarian aid but obviously they won't let us
distributed we distributed through the church we'd like to do more
uh... we're willing to give more humanitarian aid to cuba by the way
distributed to the church but the cuban regime has to allow us to do it they
won't allow us to do it. This also bullshit. The cuban government does allow the
church to distribute which by the way they're disgustingly using the church
as an infiltration mechanism and even then they are allowing the
the problem here is that only the american government is dictating how
aid gets into cuba
and they're trying to use the church to bypass whatever kind of restrictions of
the government has understandable restrictions the government has i just
i'd so fucking frustrating characterize it this way he doesn't understand why
anybody
the side the pope
the president
and i for that matter that most people i cannot understand why anyone would think
that it's a good idea for a run to ever have some nuclear weapon look what
they're doing with the streets right now they're holding the whole world hostage
they have the sailors
you know commercial ships
they're going to start to death out there they don't care
they don't care that this is melting down the the economies around the world
even of their own allies
this is what they're doing with the straights what do you think they would
do that nuclear weapon
they would hold the world hostage with that nuclear weapon
that's what they would do they would do exactly to the world with the nuclear
weapon what they're doing now with the straights
and i think the president's point is how anyone cannot see that as an
unacceptable outcome in an unacceptable risk
is beyond him it's puzzling
and someone has to do something about it
the difference between this president and like
the six presidents that preceded them
were that easy on the fact that he's saying humance is not allowing it into
it into some gaza but for cuba and he's been willing to address that right we do
the same arguments every time it's always bullshit
threats like this
i wish i knew you know thank you so much for the fact that you put name tags on
thank you so much mr. secretary
i'm with the window media network
Mr. Secretary, the president has said multiple times that
Whippin Square provided to the Kurdish group
is to pass on the Iranian people.
However, Kurdish political parties and the regional government
says they have not received such a weapons.
Even Sam claimed these weapons remain in the US base
in the region.
Can you clarify who those Whippin Square are given to
and whether you intend to retrieve them
or still want to pass to the Iranian people?
Yeah, look, ultimately, what the president is expressing,
and I think has repeatedly, is he wished the Iranian people had,
You know, look, he's heartbroken by these images.
You think about it, you're an Iranian, okay?
You're unhappy that your economy doesn't work for you.
You don't have freedom.
You don't have an opportunity to express yourself.
You know, you've got friends that have been shot in the head
because they're out protesting.
And he just, it's heartbreaking to him to see
that these people are abused in this way
and have no measures to take against their own government
as a result of it.
By the way, this goes back,
you guys remember the protests in 2009,
where they slaughtered people in the street.
This is a vicious regime, guys, okay?
These are people that hang people from cranes in the town square so everyone can see.
They continue these executions of people and have done continue to do so for over a decade
and a half now.
And so I think what the president is expressing is the desire that he wishes the Iranian people
had an ability to fight back against some of these things that are happening to them.
And I would view that as distinct and separate from the specifics of this operation that
was ongoing before it concluded and certainly different from the operation that's going
on now.
Right there in the...
I think we're right behind the...
Right behind the Colombian, he says secretary...
Right behind you, not Colombia, right there, yes ma'am.
Mr. Secretary, thank you so much.
On Lebanon, are we in a ceasefire or less fire?
And the second question, do you think you would be able to achieve an agreement between Lebanon and Israel without risking a civil war in Lebanon?
What are you doing to this one?
What are you doing to...
No, I got it. I got the dispute question.
Here's the challenge with Lebanon, okay?
There's no problem between the Lebanese government and the Israeli government.
Israel doesn't claim any land in Lebanon belongs to them.
And by and large, I think a peace deal between Lebanon and Israel is imminently achievable.
It should be.
The problem with Israel and Lebanon is not Israel or Lebanon, it's Hezbollah.
Hezbollah operates from inside of Lebanese territory.
They terrorize and attack Israelis,
but they also are inflicting tremendous damage on the Lebanese people.
The reason why Lebanon gets attacked by Israel is because of Hezbollah.
Once again, always, guys, it's always us and our allies are always constantly in a state
of having to do violence, usually against civilians, of course, because they've been
goaded into it.
It just sucks, you know?
Isn't that crazy how that always works?
God, just always, they're victims, they're victims, as real as the victim here.
And so is America.
challenge Hezbollah and disarm them because the Lebanese people are also
victims of Hezbollah and by the way on the topic of Hezbollah and Lebanon who
is behind Hezbollah? Why do they exist? They're an agent of Iran. If you go to that
Middle East and you're going to find everybody's behind Hezbollah, that's why they exist.
That's the Housis obviously and others behind every one of these groups is Tehran.
So apart from the nuclear weapons, apart from all these other things, these guys
are behind all the bad actors. Hezbollah is a wing. It's an extension of
of Iranian desire to destabilize the region. So we're very committed to this process.
It's not going to be easy. It's never America or
Israel's desire to destabilize the region. It's always just the people
that happen to live there under the bombs. On some sort of permanent ceasefire
that isn't constantly spoiled by Hezbollah and by Hezbollah violence.
I'm just, I'm winging it guys.
You mentioned the two U.S. ships that safely cross the Strait of Formuze.
moves. Are other ships being told it's safer to get back to regular levels or are we still going
to see limits in place for the foreseeable future? For obvious reasons I'm not going to broadcast
who we're talking to or who we're telling them to move. I mean we want these operations to be
safe and I think as it unfolds and ships get through we'll make those announcements after
the fact just for operational security purposes. But the goal here is pretty simple. Establish a
zone of transit that is protected by a bubble, the United States both naval and air assets,
and then allow ships who want to move to move through there and get to market to
begin to increase confidence in the ability to do so that doesn't happen in
12 hours it takes time to set up that bubble and gain that confidence but
that's the goal we have been in touch we've been in touch I don't know with a
bunch of different liners about moving and we're hoping to continue to improve
the security situation and we'll start to see some of that movement and we'll
announce it as it happens after the fact we're not gonna be like broadcasting
hey tomorrow at 12 ship X is gonna be coming through for obvious reasons
because that degrades the security but we feel confident we're gonna be able to
achieve that look it's not gonna solve the whole straight's problem it's gonna
solve a lot of it but it's important to challenge what Iran is doing now guys
again I wonder if you take anything away today and I can't tell you what to
write but we Iran cannot be allowed to normalize this control the streets it's
completely unlawful illegal it's outrageous and every country in the
world should be joining us and condemning it and doing something about it but the
the United States has stepped up and is trying to
we'll see if we get the columbia
daily mail curious about your meeting with south com earlier
there was a picture of napa cuba behind you
that was on purpose
south com
did you have any updates on it?
but it had to do something with cuba
you know
that's that's literally on purpose as delivered and the same reason why they
sent nick surely down there
this administration moves in a very predictable way
okay and they're happening to be a man not slick they're not even trying to be
slick let's be fucking real they're very clearly
signaling that cuba is next we have lots of other Trump has no way to hide
anything anyway
he just keeps leaking everything he keeps saying all we're gonna take cuba
We're gonna take Cuban X Cuba's next Cuba's next so we know exactly why Nick Shirley was fucking set down there
the U.S. to turn them over.
Yeah, I don't have any updates for you on that.
The website is what it is, and that's where it stands.
That policy hasn't changed.
But guys, I mean, let's be mature here a little bit.
I'm not going to tell you about what we're talking about
with the leader of these countries.
The State Department continues to consider
the U.S. government as a country that had
the U.S. policy on the State Department.
The U.S. policy hasn't changed,
and when it does, we'll let you know.
The politics of the United States on that,
the policy United States on that topic hasn't changed when it does you know
obviously will inform you but I don't have any news for you on that today
right there in the green
I'll get to you
are you guys all the TV people?
I'm learning, they gave me a little map I don't know where I put it, some of you
have like red X's I'm kidding
go ahead
the average price of gas in the country right now is $4.50
Do you have a thought on how long Americans are supposed to accept this?
Do you think it will affect Republicans' majority in the midterm?
Well, I'm not going to speculate on the politics of it.
You can tell me, look, it's obviously
being driven by global events.
That was true during the Russia-Ukraine War as well,
where you saw that come up.
It's one of the, look, we don't benefit from the straits
as much as other countries.
I don't know you've seen what the gas prices are like
in other parts of the world that are really suffering.
Oh, it's worse elsewhere.
I believe right now it's like the world's largest net.
Dude, it's so funny.
This is like, bro, bro, finish your food.
They're starving children or a Wanda type shit.
Okay. It's like, oh, there's worse gas prices elsewhere.
Well, good thing you're not the secretary
of state for elsewhere.
You're the secretary of state for America.
Not because of this war, but because we have this capacity.
So we've been insulated to some degree.
We're obviously still vulnerable to some extent.
The fuck do you mean it's worse elsewhere?
In the end, I mean, we're more insulated
than other countries, even though that's not welcome news
to Americans that are paying more at the pump.
No doubt about it.
And it certainly is one of the circumstances of it.
There are people that were predicting
would be much higher at this point,
but we're not taking that for granted.
Suffice it to say that,
could have been worse, could have been worse.
We're gonna fucked it up harder.
If Iran had a nuclear weapon,
and they decided to close the straits
and make our gas prices like $9 a gallon
or $8 a gallon, we wouldn't be able to do anything about it
because they have a nuclear weapon.
And literally, if Iran could do whatever they held,
they walked into straits,
and there's nothing anyone would be able to do about it.
And that's one of the many reasons, apart from like the massive loss of life in the nuclear strike,
why Iran can never have a nuclear weapon.
I mean, so this is an example of if they had a nuclear weapon, they closed the straits and they would tell the world,
what are you going to do about it? We have a nuclear weapon, we can attack you with it.
That's the world none of us want to leave behind. It won't happen under this president's watch,
but some future president and future, you know, and the future Americans will have to deal with this.
So it's just one more example of why these guys can never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon.
Why are you in the black, yes ma'am?
No, right there, you both are wearing black, she's close.
No, you don't have black, you have blue on. I'm colorblind, but I know blue and black.
Right there, yes ma'am. No, no, you, the first one I called on.
Thank you. This is chaos, guys. Go ahead.
Welcome to the White House.
You've long been a leading voice on human rights in China.
Thank you for the gift article for Financial Times chatter.
So President Trump prepares to meet you next week.
Do you expect human rights concerns to be on the table?
Well, we always raise those issues.
They remain true.
And I think we've put them in some cases it's most effective to raise them in the appropriate
way.
Trump talking about human rights is the funniest thing, dude.
What leg do we have this stand on?
I mean, no American president.
No, you said that about me and President Trump, especially Trump.
Trump doesn't even fake care about human rights.
He literally will openly be like, what?
I don't care.
Wait a minute.
Human rights?
What about human wrongs?
We're doing a lot of human wrongs.
That's a good question.
I mean, multiple countries have said we've got to do something about it and fix it.
We literally have concentration camps that we're operating in El Salvador, okay?
The fuck do you mean human rights?
They can't get there in time, or they can't.
Others, you know, or less, you know, that some unfortunate, do have a Navy, are saying,
oh, we'll be involved, but we'll be involved after it's over, or after it's over.
It's kind of like, you know, that makes sense.
So, you know, we'd like to have it.
And there may be some utility in a post, you know, closure mission.
I'm not downplaying that.
But I think that's been the challenge.
But there are other ways they can help, unique ways that they can help.
And I don't want to get into who these countries are for obvious reasons, you know, because
they are prepared to help us in certain ways, but maybe don't want that publicly disclosed
for no other reason than it impacted foreign policy.
It could have some domestic ramifications.
But ultimately, I don't want to mislead you.
The primary responsibility for this project, Freedom, is on the United States, because
we're the only country that can project power in that part of the world the way we're doing
now.
We're the only ones that can do it, and we're going to do it as a favor to the world.
this. This is a favor to the world because it's their ships that are stranded. It's
their fuel supplies that are stranded. By the way, it's their humanitarian aid, destined
for different countries in the world that's stranded in the Persian Gulf right now. It's
the fertilizer that they need for their food and crops that's stranded in the Persian Gulf.
Not our fertilizer, their fertilizer. So we want to be helpful and that's why the President
stepped forward because we're the only ones that can. Frankly, we're the only ones that
can.
Mr. Secretary, on the rising oil and gas prices, the President has said that this is a small
price to pay for getting rid of a nuclear weapon. But 10 weeks in, are we any closer to getting rid
of Iran's nuclear materials? Yeah, but look, here's the way to think about Iran. And this is what I
described at the very beginning of this. What was Iran's plan? You have to understand what their
plan was. Their plan was they were going to build this conventional shield where they would have so
many thousands of missiles and drones and rockets that they couldn't be attacked. And behind that
conventional shield that they were trying to build, they would then break out and do whatever
they wanted with their nuclear program. They no longer have that conventional shield. Okay, we
We told you guys from the very beginning, and we're very consistent in this messaging.
The operation that has concluded was going to destroy their Navy.
They have no Navy left.
They don't, not a Navy.
They have small.
By the way, this is the difference between Trump and Marco Rubio.
They're both saying the same thing, but Marco Rubio, because of his experience being a Republican
Warhawk for many, many years, a neocon, he's capable of crafting the same exact sentiment
in a way that's like much more understandable, where he's literally saying the same shit.
Iran was gonna get nukes. Iran was gonna get nukes. We had to stop Iran from getting nukes.
That's all he's doing here, right? But the way he crafts that sentiment is a lot more
manageable for, you know, liberal outlets and things like that. So they'll report on
it as though this is like an adult, right? He has a way to describe himself as a fucking
He has a way to communicate like a goddamn adult as opposed to Donald Trump.
So it's like major media will write down what he's saying as though it's sincere, as though
it's a significant goal that they're accomplishing.
The goalpost moves so much law first, it was regime change, then it was nuclear weapons,
then it was the ballistic missiles.
And now they've been claiming since it was the start, it was about the Navy.
Yeah, they're all over the place because they don't have any real goals against Iran.
And not only that, the only reason why they're doing this is because Israel wanted to destroy
Iran, okay?
They wanted to break apart Iran, they wanted to destroy Iran, 93 million people, they wanted
to balkanize it, they wanted to foment civil war, they just wanted to get rid of Iran,
no more sovereign Iran.
That's the actual goal here, because from America's perspective, there are many different
ways of dealing with Iran.
For example, they could have just negotiated with Iran, right?
But Israel didn't want that to happen, and that's precisely why we're in this quagmire
that we're currently in.
The Iranian regime is allowed to claim, as a new normal, control over international
shipping lanes.
It will not be long before you see that happen in multiple shipping lanes around the world.
I can identify for you six or seven vital shipping lanes around the world that sometimes
you can decide, guess what?
If Iran was able to do it, we're going to do it too.
We're not going to start charging tolls, and it'll get closer and closer to us.
That's unacceptable.
We cannot live in a world that has a lot of time and energy been invested in behind the
idea that international waters are free for the free flow of goods.
The stuff we make in this country and export has to go through international shipping lanes.
And for us to live in a world where a country can decide now we own the international shipping
lane, that is a normal that we will never be able to accept, and that's what the Iranians
are trying to get us to do.
So we're doing two things about it, and we haven't talked about the second one enough.
The second thing we're doing is, we're going to the UN.
Pay the toll to get into the boys' hole.
We're trying to go to the UN, and we're saying, okay, countries of the world, condemn this.
Say that it is wrong for you to put mines there.
It is wrong for you to shoot at commercial vessels.
Guys, that's what we're talking about here.
These guys are bombing commercial vessels.
They're not bombing naval vessels.
They're bombing commercial vessels.
Neutral, though!
It's just outrageous.
That needs to stop, and it needs to end.
And if he doesn't, then the world should be diplomatically and economically icon.
God damn it.
You gotta pay the troll toll.
If you want to get into that boy's hole, you gotta pay the troll toll to get in.
You want the baby boy's hole, you gotta pay the troll toll.
You gotta pay the troll toll to get in.
Troll toll.
What'd you say?
Troll toll.
Do you know what's Taiwan policy when he visits China next week?
sure Taiwan will be a topic of conversation. It always is. As you know, we understand that
the Chinese understand our position on that topic. We understand theirs. And I think both
parties have got without, you know, I think both countries understand that it is neither
one of our interests to see anything destabilize happen in that part of the world. We don't
need any destabilizing events to occur with regards to Taiwan or anywhere in the Indo-Pacific.
and i think but that's to the mutual benefit of both the united states and
the chinese
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what happened why is everybody giggling? what happened?
oh, i'm sorry
are they maddening me too?
no they're not maddening me
i don't think they are
yes they are because you're fucking mike lindell's operation, you're a psycho
how does the state department interpret the president's recent remarks when he said quote
iranian people need to have guns and i think they're getting some guns and
quote
what do you mean and do those comments relate to any on-going potential u
s actions like supplying those well i think it goes back to the question i was
asked a moment ago i think the president thinks it's heartbreaking that the iranian
people are abused
by this regime the way they are
you know i think this is the president really i know i've said this i think i
said this in my hearing before the senate the president really cares about the
iranian people in the world where there's a bigger difference between the
people
and the people who run the country
Okay, this country is run by radical Shia clerics.
And that's not what Iran and the Iranian people are.
Not, they may be Shia, but they're not radicals
and they're not clerics and they just want a normal life
and a regular life and in many ways
a very cosmopolitan country with an incredible history.
Incredible history and incredible legacy and the like.
So there's this huge divide between the people of Iran
whom we sympathize with and who the president
sympathize with because they're the ones suffering.
Look, the world is a victim of Iran, okay?
The world is a victim of Iran because they're terrorists
because of what they're doing now in the streets.
But the people of Iran are daily victims of the regime
and the president has deep sympathy
for what they're going through.
And I think he's just expressing that sympathy
and that frustration that they don't have the ability
to do more to get rid of this regime
that has crushed this country
and isolated it from the world,
which is a country that shouldn't be isolated from the world
because its people are phenomenal.
All right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's really wanted to help the people of Iran.
That's why he's been talking about how we're economically starving the country, and how successful it's been.
He used to cover Capitol Hill. You're Italian, right?
For many years.
For many years.
Okay.
So I have two short questions for you.
Oh, damn, there's questions.
First, as you had to the Vatican and Italy, how do you view the Pope's global role and the current geopolitical shift?
And what are your objectives in Italy?
Is this trick tied to recent remarks by the president suggesting Italy is not being supported
as expected?
And the second one is about the Hezbollah in Lebanon.
On a recent interview on Fox News, you had some, you raised some concern about stronger
vetting within the Lebanese armed forces.
Can you, what do you make, can you elaborate a little bit about yours?
I answered the first one about the Vatican.
Look, I mean, the Pope is obviously the vicar of crisis, the Roman Catholic, you know, but
He's also the head of a nation state, and it's an organization that has a presence in
over 100 something countries around the world.
And we engage with the Vatican quite a bit because they're present in many different
places.
I've already outlined to you two examples.
We worked with the Catholic Church on the distribution of humanitarian aid in Cuba.
We share with the Catholic Church a concern about the destruction of religious liberty,
the persecution of Christian minorities, and also the challenges that are being faced by
Christians and...
Lebanon though at the hands of Israel because you know don't bring that up
but with them and and and I engage with them quite a bit on that front so the
trip is is is really not tied to anything other than the fact that it would
be normal for us to engage with them and other secretary states have done that in
the past on the second point about Lebanon also a question that was asked
earlier and what was the Italian part about the expectation that the press
oh no look I mean the Italians have been involved or quite a for some time in
training the police and training their forces so we'd love to hear their input
on it and in the way look we welcome everybody's help eventually what has to
happen in Lebanon what everybody wants to see is that you have a Lebanese
government with the capability to go after Hezbollah and take Hezbollah apart
there shouldn't be like there shouldn't be a Hezbollah and a government there
should be a government everyone should fold underneath it and if we do that
there will be peace between Israel and Lebanon but we have but we have to build
the capacity of the Lebanese to do it and I think Italy could be helpful in that
that we bought it all right yeah except there would be no need for Hezbollah if
Israel wasn't consistently bombing the shit out of Lebanon I call him already
okay all right currently militarily invading Lebanon yeah okay this doesn't
make any sense unbelievably dumb conversation to have it sucks that no
one is equipped to have this conversation with Marco Rubio like you're in the
room just bring it up we don't know yeah look I mean everyone wouldn't want to
see this vetoed again and then we've made some slight adjustments to the language
but I don't know if it'll avoid a veto or not but the language isn't very
complicated. I think it's a real test for the UN right as a function as
something that functions to beckons golf go solve global problems. What is the
purpose of the UN? The UN was supposed to be a place where you could peacefully
resolve global conflict. Right now you have a country who is unlawfully
criminally and illegally taking possession of an international waterway
and blowing up commercial vessels and putting mines in the water. I don't know
people appreciate like how outrageous this is, how unacceptable it is that any country
would fire and try to sink commercial vessels or put mines in the water. Both of these things
are illegal. And so we're going to take it to the UN and we're going to give it another
chance to be a forum in which we're not even asking people like commit troops to the region
and help the people of Iran and both. All we're asking them to do is to condemn it,
to call on Iran to stop blowing ships, to remove these mines, and to allow humanitarian relief
to come through because there's humanitarian aid that's trapped. That's it. This is a very
modest request. And if you're telling me that the international community and hundreds
of countries cannot rally behind that, then I don't know what the utility of the UN system
is. If it can't even solve something as straightforward as that, and I think to both Chinese and Americans,
I would argue that it is because you have violated, perhaps because you have violated
all matter of international law in the build-up to this incident.
They're interested not to see international waterways, including the Straits and Formos,
closed down and cause economic chaos by the way dozens and dozens of the american government
yelling about civilian vessels being blown up is is really funny you're the secretary
of state you've done that to hundreds of civilian vessels in the caribbean of course for ghani
country at the end of the day with all the people you've been extremely busy go ahead
i'm sorry as we all know i i gotta ask you what is your hope for america at a time such
is this. Oh my God. My hope for America? And how do you personally deal with that? Yeah,
look, I mean my hope for America is what it's always been. I think it's the hope I hope we
all share. We want it to continue to be the place where anyone from any work can achieve anything,
where you're not limited by the circumstances of your birth, by the color of your skin, by your
ethnicity, but frankly it's a place where you are able to overcome challenges and achieve your
hope of country. I think that should be the goal of every country in the world. You can't go back
to Reagan era posturing. Your movement is now white nationalist, white supremacists. You can't do
history, and our history of perpetual improvement. Each generation has left the next generation
of Americans.
Half of your audience is going to look at you and go, oh, that's, uh, yeah, of course
he's Mexican, so he's talking like this, you know? Yes, I know Marco is Cuban, okay?
We have a lot to learn and be proud of in our history. It is one of perpetual and continuous
improvement, where each generation has done its part to bring us closer to fulfilling
the vision that the founders of this country had upon its founding, so thank you.
All right, I have time for two more questions
All right right there in the pink no no no you right there that no that late no the one right next to you in the pink
No, no, no, no, no the pink. I'm sorry, but I pointed to her. I need to get a laser point
Now you in the pink jacket the lady right there. Thank you
Thank you very much, Secretary.
I have a question on Iran-China relations.
Okay.
What's your reaction to Iranian foreign minister visit to China?
Also, Beijing insured that it concerns to ignore U.S. sanctions.
Could you also address that?
Well, I'll direct you to Treasury on that front.
There are options that we have.
If you ignore our sanctions, you're going to face secondary sanctions.
And I don't have an announcement for you on that today.
Oh, really?
But we don't do these things for symbolic purposes.
On the first point about the visit. It's fine
I hope the Chinese tell him what he needs to be told and that is that what you are doing in the Straits is causing you to be globally isolated
So you guys should not be blowing up ships. You should not be putting mines. You should not be
Holding hostage the global trying to hold
We're literally jerking off each other at this point. This is a jerk off session outlined earlier today
China is an export driven economy
Okay, I'm not here to speak on behalf of what's in the best interest of China, but it's obvious
China is an export driven economy
That means they depend on other countries to buy from them
Well, you can't buy from them if you can't ship it there and you can't buy from them if your economy is being destroyed
By what Iran is doing so it isn't Iran it is in China's interest that Iran stop closing the streets
It's harming China as well
The gentleman in the red tie. Right there.
Yes, I'm sorry, what's your name?
Liz Landers of the U.S. News Agency.
Okay.
Another question about the China-Iran relationship.
You said at the beginning of your comments at the top that every single financial situation will be targeted.
Does that include Chinese banks? Would the president's...
We're going to enforce our sanctions.
I don't have an announcement for you.
That will have to come from Treasury.
But we have sanctions in place.
And sanctions don't mean anything to us.
Bro, can you imagine?
Right before the challenge, the announcement of additional Chinese sanctions, oh god.
Oh, for any specific announcements.
Suffice it to say we're serious about our sanctions.
A cost needs to be imposed on Iran for what they are doing.
Otherwise, if they get away with this, guys, if they get away with being pulled this thing
off without paying a price for it and backing down, you're going to see multiple places
around the world where other countries are going to be tempted to do the same.
This is unacceptable.
Again, I want to reiterate the point.
We keep arguing back and forth about the war and the shooting and this and that and the
of these guys have shut down an international waterway.
The Straits of Hormuz do not belong to Iran.
They don't have a right to shut it down and blow up ships
and lay mines.
And that's what they've done.
That needs to be addressed.
Otherwise, and it cannot be normalized,
under no circumstance until we live in a world where we accept,
OK, this is normal.
You have to coordinate with Iran.
You have to pay them a toll in order
to go through the Straits of Hormuz.
Not only is that unacceptable in the Straits,
you're creating a precedent that could be repeated
in multiple other places around the world.
The whole world should join us in this combination.
And the whole world should join us in doing something about it, by the way, it shouldn't
just be us.
We're hoping to get countries.
We're going to give them a chance to do something about it at the United Nations.
All right, and that last question.
Once again, the fact that the rest of the country, the rest of the United Nations is
not on board with the United States here is also eating away at whatever diplomatic power
projection capabilities that America has.
Thank you.
This is a self-imposed restriction. You're basically, when you keep repeating this over and over again, if the rest of the world doesn't follow you, then you have self-imposed this additional L, okay?
In two weeks. Do you believe that that will be the thing that gets them to the table to give up their nuclear ambitions, and if not, what will happen?
forcing other countries around the world to basically say we're not with you on this.
They don't care that their people are suffering. You understand, right?
There's a difference between we can withstand pressure and we actually don't care.
Now I think there are people in their system that care more than others.
You know, some of the elected people that you see, some of the people you see on
television with the suits on, you know, those guys care because they know at the
end of the day they have to live in the reality. And then you have an other element
of their government, the clerical, the clerics, the IRGC types, who probably are
more immune to that and care less. They're more interested in regime
survivor at all costs. But ultimately the pressure points are what they are.
The administration has said that the Iranian regime is divided making it very challenging.
Well it's been challenging to deal with them diplomatically because for example an offer
will be made and then it takes five or six days to get a response because you have to
get it through the whole system. They have to find the supreme leader wherever he hides.
They got to get him to sign up and that's their system. Their system has always been
multi-layered in this way it's obviously become more complex because of the damage they suffered during the war but look
Suffice it to say Iran has to pay a price there
They're not gonna change their position out of there begging they're begging for a ceasefire
It's just that they can and that caused them to realize they cannot continue to close the straights or they face crushing
I'll give you the Trumpian version. They're begging for a ceasefire. They're begging for a ceasefire
That's all Marco Rubio came here to do what JD Vance does all the time
time, which is to give a more adult spin on what Trump says over and over again.
He hasn't said anything new.
He has brought no new information to the table.
He's just doing what Trump does, except with less colorful language.
That's all this is.
If you notice, he goes, they are in a predicament where they're in a chaotic circumstance.
they can't they want to deal their begging for a deal
play tax evaders thank you for the ten gifted subs and tax the rich thank you
for the gift ten gift the subs
as all this is
the operation
epic fury is concluded we achieve the objectives of that operation
i'm not going to you know
we're not sharing for an additional
situation to occur we prefer the path of peace
what the president would prefer
is a deal he would prefer to sit down work out a memorandum of understanding
future negotiations that touches on all the key topics that have to be addressed, a full opening
of the streets so the world can get back to normal, that he preferred that that be negotiated through
the route that Steve and Jared have been working and that all of us have been supporting. That's the
route he prefers. That is so far not the route that he's chosen. And so the result has been that the
United States has to do something about the fact that we're the only nation on earth that can do
anything to open up a lane within the streets of our moves to get product and to rescue these people
that are trapped in there. And that's what we're undergoing now. What that may lead to in the future
I'm not going to speculate about what it would take or what it would do, but look, the message
is...
These guys are facing...
Again, none of this would have happened if America didn't choose to, alongside Israel,
bomb Iran for no reason.
Generational destruction to the wealth of their country, imposed on themselves by the actions
that they're taking.
They should check themselves before they wreck themselves in the direction that they're going.
Does the White House believe that these votes coming up in Congress are a new point then?
Look, guys, I love talking about this topic.
You don't want the war powers there.
Yeah.
I'm hoping somebody would ask.
All right, hold on, hold on, no, no, you don't let me answer.
I gotta answer the question.
Okay, and I love it, I'll tell you why I love it,
because even as a senator, I said something.
The War Powers Act is unconstitutional, 100%.
Now, this is not the position of me,
not the position of the President of the United States now.
This is the position of every single president
that has occupied this position since the day
that law passed, it's completely unconstitutional.
Now, we comply with it in terms of like notification
because we wanna preserve good relations with Congress, right?
And we do that.
But even as a senator, I would say that the War Powers Act is 100% unconstitutional.
And look, I know some of you, whatever you want to say, but this is not this president's
position.
That has been the position of every single presidential administration since the day
that law passes.
An infringement on the president's constitutional powers.
We don't acknowledge the law as constitutional.
Nonetheless, we comply with elements of it for purposes of maintaining, you know, good
relations with Congress.
And we want them to be involved and we want them to be informed.
I've gone on Capitol Hill, I don't know, four times this year for all senators and all House
members and Intel Committee and Gang of Eight.
We want them to be involved in this, but I want to be clear on the point of the War
Powers Act.
It's unconstitutional.
And every president and every administration is taking that position.
All right, guys, I gave you 50 minutes.
Thank you.
Thank you, guys.
Thank you.
Rubio's enjoying this.
We just finished a focus group of Trump voters in Louisiana.
Nearly the whole group preferred Rubio to JD Vance.
I've been watching this phenomenon build for a while.
discuss more in the next focus group pod. Trump voters like Marco Rubio more and more.
Yeah, because JD Vanst sucks. He has, I mean, Marco Rubio is rizzless as well, but at least
he can demonstrate, he can thank competence as opposed to JD Vanst who looks incredibly whiny,
more whiny than Marco Rubio, okay? But none of this matters at the end of the day because
whoever Tucker Carlson leans into or if Tucker Carlson runs himself, he will be able to clear
out the field. It won't even matter, okay? No JD Vance, no Marco Rubio, no one can go
up against Tucker. Let's be real. He is infinitely more competent than these guys. He's much better.
He is much more telegenic than these guys. He's much more charismatic than these guys.
Marco Rubio is just a blanket, neocon, warhawk, regular ass Republican. Maybe some of the Republican
voters are looking for a breath of fresh air here with Marco Rubio, especially because
he doesn't have the weird tendency to lean into the griper shit that J.D. Evans does.
Maybe but Tucker's approval rating among Republicans have gone in the shitter. It's
like minus 50 now. Yeah, just wait. I know that. I understand that. But you have to remember,
we're talking post-Trump, okay? We're talking post-Trump.
You're not, I'm not talking about right now. Yes, if there was an election right now, I
I still think Tucker Carlson would be able to put a sizable dent on the main stage.
But we're talking post Trump.
Things are gonna be very different post Trump.
Tucker Carlson speaks the language of slopulism, okay?
And that's precisely what made the Trump cult so powerful.
Trump is a slopulist himself.
Marco Rubio, nor JD Vance, is capable of speaking that language. Okay? In any case, Rubio adding
to Hexas messaging that the ceasefire is still in place. We hear stories about firing back
and forth. It's not back and forth. We are only responding if attacked first. US has
destroyed boats. Iran has launched cruise missiles, drones, and small boats.
John Hudson reports Rubio leaning into the idea that the Iran war is over, though Trump is still
threatening to erase Iran and hostilities slash restrictions in the straight continue.
The operation is over. Epic fury as president notified Congress. We're done with that stage
of it. Okay. This again, creates a unique opening, a unique opening that the Iranian
side can actually exploit. Now Iran can continue fucking stress testing, how far the Americans
will go domestically to claim that there is no, there's no, there's no military campaign
happening in the Strait of Hormuz, okay? That's where we're at. That is where we are at.
What is this, Hasan? This guy wants credit. Which photo, um, I would gladly give credit.
I don't think these guys understand, like when I post these photos, which one did he take?
I don't even know, but I can, um, I can add, uh, the, the photo credit, but like, I often
give them, uh, credit on Instagram, but I don't know. Sometimes they have different
user names on Twitter. Sometimes they don't have a Twitter account. Like I, I, I don't,
You know, it's fine, of course, it's totally appropriate to give credit, but I don't know
which one he took.
Like, I don't know which person this, oh, the music photographer, I shot Guy de Borde.
Let's see if I can add the tag afterwards.
I guess I can't edit it at this point.
I would just tag it like IG type of thing if you don't know their Twitter handle.
How are you supposed to track it all by yourself?
Does the job for a team?
No, no, no.
We have.
I have.
Here, I'll post the, I'll post the, I'll post it as a reply.
I think it's totally appropriate to want credit for your photography and I posted it originally
on Instagram and which at which point I did actually tag everyone that took the photos.
But here, there you go, I added it on here as a reply.
The short jacket tie combo is whack homie, you can do better law, shut up.
Photography is frivolous?
No, no, no, no, no, no.
I think in this situation, we just didn't know what this person's Twitter account was.
why? Because I tagged the other photographer because we found the other photographer is a
dude, give him the credit, I guess. Wait, what? No, guys, I already did. And not only that, but
I'm also saying that sometimes people have different user names on Twitter. Not everyone is on Twitter.
Hello? I'm explaining why I didn't initially give this person the credit, because I did
give them credit on Instagram. But their username on Instagram is different. Do you not understand?
like look I gave I gave photo credit on Instagram to the people who took the photos
Trey Madara took these photos and then this is from the screen is a screenshot but yeah
see a music photographer Brian J Sutter he's the one who took those photos right so I I did I did
at them on Instagram, but I didn't know if they had a Twitter account or not. And it
turns out they do have a Twitter account, but their Twitter account is I shot guide
to board. It's a totally different, um, is a totally different username. I didn't know
that they had, uh, a, a, um, they count on Twitter to streamery right now.
Anyway.
Anyway.
Anky Rune, your suit aura so fast.
I can identify for you six or seven.
What? Six or seven.
Vital.
Okay.
By the way, when we would be introduced to the team, never, never, what are you, what's
wrong with you?
Never.
What the fuck is this pair of social shit, chatters?
It's not happening.
The fuck is this question?
Sometimes, sometimes chatters unironically have the attitude of like, like parents,
like what are you, what are you, my fucking family member?
What is this?
Be normal, please.
Oh my God. Yeah, when are you going to introduce your dentist? Can you give me deeper access,
deeper penetration and deeper insight into your life? It's fine. You already got enough,
okay? It's very strange to demand more, please. Can we find out who your primary care physician
is. I don't know. Probably not. Okay. Um, raising day in Cane saying, uh, Iran hasn't, uh, across
the threshold again, going back to the, going back to the situation monitoring and what the
American side is saying currently, uh, raising cane comes out and says, since the C.S. Farz
announced Iran has fired a commercial vessels nine times and sees two container ships. We've
attacked US, they've attacked US force more than 10 times, all below the threshold of
restarting major combat operations at this point. So they have an arbitrary threshold
that they've decided is not, that Iran has simply not crossed, okay? This is a self-imposed
restriction from the American side. And it is, by my estimations at least, a clear-cut
indication that America wants to make it seem like the ceasefire is holding, while simultaneously
still engaging in military action.
The map shows the examples and samples of Iranian attacks against commercial vessels
in the strait as well as the Gulf of Oman and up in the Arabian Gulf.
Since the ceasefire was announced, Iran has fired at commercial vessels nine times and
seized two container ships, and they've attacked US forces more than 10 times, all below the
threshold of restarting major combat operations at this point.
You can also see the group of tankers and cargo vessels in the US blockade line, as
I mentioned.
As a result of Iran's indiscriminate attacks across the region, there are currently 22,500
mariners, embarked on more than 1,550 commercial vessels trapped in the
Arabian Gulf, unable to transit.
Yeah, uh, again, this is a self-imposed L. Okay.
It shows that on the one hand, they want to escalate militarily.
They want to do this stuff where they don't want to like lean into a, a ceasefire.
They want to show that they have the capability of crossing the
trade of Hormuz with their naval assets, but also when there's military escalation on the Iranian side,
they can't acknowledge it. Or even if they do acknowledge it, they can't acknowledge that
the ceasefire is now being violated, right? That the ceasefire is now being destroyed.
This is a unique predicament that America has self-imposed, because obviously,
Hassan has got a poll for Florida 23rd district and you're one of the questions Jesus Christ
it is it is clear to me that the Republican midterm strategy unironically is to say Hassan is bad
which I don't think is going to work I mean maybe it'll like maybe it'll fucking ruin my
approval ratings amongst like the 75 year old you know plus 75 crowd that watches Fox News all
the time, but who gives a shit? Very, very stupid. Yeah, meanwhile, while Marco Rubio was
talking to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Center, UKMTO has issued an advisory
after receiving a verified report that cargo vessel was struck by an unknown projectile
and an unknown location within the straight of Hormuz. This just happened.
Hassan, you're all let me chat. Hassan, are you excited about your upstreaming today?
I don't. I'm very excited.
So, here's the proof.
never heard of no opinion really brah I hate this fucking community I swear to
God what the fuck am I doing man what am I doing bro what am I doing I have the
The worst goddamn audience of all time!
At least you didn't say very unfavorable!
Everyone's a motherfucking prankster dude, how is this possible?
Everyone's a goddamn prankster of the highest order!
Anyway, hey, at least I'm not sending you poop socks.
Okay, built it brick by brick, I did not.
I did not try to build a community of charlatans, okay?
Be better.
Do better.
Where were we? What was I going to do? What was I going to show you? There's more to discuss.
There's some Platinum stuff that we're obviously going to be talking about. But before we get
to that, okay, before we get to that, global oil reserves, two Financial Times articles.
One is the growing risk of a nonlinear spike in oil prices from the Financial Times published
nine hours ago, the straddle hormones remains closed with the flimsiest of ceasefires looking
flimsier by the hour oil price to jump back to above $100 a barrel. At times like these,
it's important to remember that things can still get much, much, much worse. The main reason why
the impact of the straddle hormones closure hasn't even been even more grievous is a record-breaking
drawdown in strategic oil reserves in the US, Europe, and Asia. Myriad privately owned commercial
inventories around the world and the steady arrival of tankers. Remember, this is exactly what I said
to Jeffrey Sachs as well that the, like, I don't know how long it will hold that there are, you
know, there's spot trading happening. I don't know how long it'll hold that there is, you know,
additional oil tankers that are, you know, all around the ether still selling oil to other
countries, but there is a point where there will be a physical shortage, right?
And at that point, what do you do? What do you do? There is no way that you can continue this song
and dance when there is a physical shortage. It will lead to a market crash potentially,
because reserves are eventually going to run out, right? Oil is a physical product.
It's not a speculative asset that you can just like invent more of magically. If there is not
a physical commodity that is transiting to the fucking shred of hormones, which is responsible for
20% of the entire globe's energy markets, that is responsible for almost the entirety of the
The Asian market's energy supply at some point, at some point, people are just not going to
have it, right? They're just not going to have enough oil. What happens to the prices
then?
Together, these have acted as a powerful shock absorber for the global energy market, keeping
the price increased a little bit, contained as Barclays Ajay Rajadhyaksa wrote this week.
It's like the world has lost its job but has kept living reasonably comfortably off its
crude oil nest egg and unemployment benefits.
Unfortunately, this nest egg will now soon be spent and the government checks are set
to run out unless the straight reopens pronto.
And while stock markets have proven surprisingly resilient so far, largely thanks to a bumper
quarter for corporate earnings, some analysts are sounding increasingly worried.
Natasha Keneva, the head of commodity strategy, JP Morgan is one of them.
She thinks that the illusion of plenty could shatter soon with operational stress levels
looming and potential broader system instability by the autumn if the straight remains closed.
We've already seen some shocks. We've already seen some of that instability.
Spirit Airlines actually had to declare, had to shutter their operations,
because the president fuel went up too much and they already were operating on very slim
margins to begin with, right? On a good economy, on a healthy economy, on a healthy energy market,
they were still having a hard time keeping up and continuing their operations. And now,
they're gone, right? That's a huge deal. Under normal circumstances, the market is supposed to
respond to that to be like, wow, a low-cost carrier out of nowhere evaporates. That's a big deal.
And yet, we don't have a normal market where everyone is just holding on to the idea that
things are going to be good somehow. While the world began the year with the equivalent of over
8 billion barrels of oil in tankers, pipelines, depots, salt cavers, and practice, not every
barrel can be drawn out of the 8.4 billion barrels in global inventories. You estimate only 0.8 billion
barrels are realistically available without pushing the system into operational stress.
As of April 23rd, roughly 280 million barrels have already been consumed to cushion the impact
of the conflict on paper that still suggests comfortable buffers. In practice, the picture is
more complicated. Floating storage can be tapped quickly, but only a slice of onshore inventories
around 580 million barrels is readily accessible. The rest is effectively locked up in pipeline
fills, minimum tank levels, and other operational constraints. This is why
inventory floors matter. A market can still hold hundreds of millions of
barrels and yet become fragile once working stocks fall too low. Like blood
pressure in the human body, the issue is circulation. Pipelines lose pressure
flexibility. Terminals cannot load efficiently. Refiner struggle to
secure the right grades on time and traders bid aggressively for nearby
supply. The system does not fail because oil disappears. It fails because the
circulation network no longer has enough working volume. The same principle
applies to refined products. Product inventories are somewhat more flexible
than crude, but a meaningful portion must still be maintained as the
strategic and operational buffer, particularly the support critical sector
such as transportation and aviation. OECD inventories offer a clear example of
this operational floor. Historically, OECD product inventories, including both
commercial and strategic reserves, have rarely fallen below 35 days of forward
demand, roughly 1.6 billion barrels, suggesting a practical lower bound.
In a prolonged disruption scenario, demand is therefore rationed well before inventories
approach critically low levels. This has already taken place in some of the Asian markets,
where they have artificially lowered demand by force, okay? Demanding that they go back,
go to a four-day work week, for example. Although we live in the age of the internet, weirdly
enough, that kind of information doesn't penetrate Western consciousness, okay? It's not, also,
that's not based for the record. That's not like a good thing. That is an indication that
things are going to get much, much worse. Okay. So how quickly will this begin to truly
bite? Caneva argues that oil inventory drawdowns are a bit like an onion with layers peeled
off according to speed of access, economic cost, political willingness and logistical
ease. Caneva says we are now at the fourth layer where the higher prices begin de facto
ration oil for consumers demand destruction as it's often called. This has already happened
in some markets. Consumers drive less, industry cuts runs, airlines trim schedules, and refiners
reduce throughput. In effect, the market is shifting from a managed adjustment driven
by HBR releases and floating storage to a forced adjustment, where price becomes the
primary balancing tool. Observed global oil demand fell by an average of 2.8 MBD in March
and is tracking a larger 4.3 MBD decline so far in April.
This means less movement, less travel, less deliveries, okay?
This means a decrease in productivity.
And a decrease in productivity, especially for countries that are responsible with manufacturing,
means less supply overall for the goods that you normally get.
So it translates to higher prices for the American markets, for the Western markets,
are not producer economies, but consumer economies specifically, you get to experience it in the
form of inflation, okay? Less supply with the same demand means higher prices.
Although we have a delayed shock here in the Western world, both with the
the oil that transits due to the length of the trip, oil that transits to the United
States of America, and also less of a need of oil coming from the Persian Gulf.
We will still see increased prices, we will still see increased prices in the Western
world in commercial airlines, delivery prices, and specifically the price of commodities.
Okay? Price of goods that you're purchasing because there's just less goods readily available
overall because less goods are being produced. Given the magnitude of the demand pullback,
our balance now suggests OECD commercial inventories are on track to approach operational stress
levels by early June.
the fifth layer. Operational minimum stocks typically the last barrels drawn and in practice
are deliberately avoided. Pipeline filled tank bottoms, line pack equivalents, minimum
terminal inventories and the product stocks required for day to day continuity are rarely
accessed because drawing them materially increases the risk of operational disruption and a broader
system instability. On our estimates OECD commercial stocks could fall to these operational floors
by September if the sugar hormones remains closed assuming demand destruction stabilizes
5.5 MBD. Now, I guess a good thing for the oil markets is a much faster deadline that
is approaching the deadline of the Beijing summit. Okay? Donald Trump is going to Beijing.
Donald Trump is going to have a conversation with Xi Jinping. In that conversation, I suspect
this will be the main topic of concern as opposed to what happens in Taiwan. And Donald
Trump might quite literally ask Xi Jinping for help, okay?
China has obviously bailed out the United States of America in the past.
This would be yet another instance of China bailing out the United States of America,
which I suspect is what will take place. China will say, okay, we'll go to Iran and we'll
commit to a multilateral cooperative agreement to ensure that there is longstanding peace
and security in the Strait of Hormuz. I don't know how much of the Iranian demands will
be addressed in that security agreement. And this will probably end up cutting Israel out
of the deal once more. I don't know what Israel will do in the process, but that's what I
think is going to happen. Why the fuck would China help? What do you mean? Because China
wants stability
copium no china wants stability
i'm not saying china is gonna pressure iran
i'm saying china is going to tell america as china
that the iranian demands must be met
part of the iranian demands if you looked at them recently
now the ten point program that they applied the ten point program that they
put forward
unlike week two
of operation at stein's fury
opus iraqi is visiting
uh... beijing today
i suspect conversations will revolve around getting china to communicate
iranian demands directly to donald trump from a position of tremendous leverage
because china has tremendous leverage over donald trump now has even more
leverage over donald trump because
china could be
what is uh... china could be
the country that uh... you know opens up the straight of our moves from donald
trump's perspective
China needs the oil and petrochemicals and fertilizers are very interested in getting
this wrapped up too. Exactly. China is a, uh, China is a trade-maxer country, as you know,
uh, and, and obviously, uh, as a trade-maxer country that relies heavily on the, uh, Persian
Gulf for all of its energy needs, for all of the precursory chemical needs that they
have for the fertilizer, they want the sugar hormones to open up as well.
Trump's never gonna take that 10 point plan as the most obvious admission of defeat, buddy.
It's already over. Okay. America has already lost. This is now, this is now, this is now
going to be a situation where Donald Trump decides how much bleeding is fine, okay?
USA Germany took a ginormous hit here, okay?
U.S. force projection capabilities took a ginormous hit here.
America has already lost.
Now we have to stop the bleeding, okay?
How, like what will Trump do to stop the bleeding is what matters, okay?
That's the real conversation that I think is going to take shape in the Beijing summit
if it even happens.
The only party here that could potentially play the role of a spoiler is the party that
has played the role of a spoiler thus far.
It's also the party that has forced the hand, or that has forced the closure of the shirt
of hormones.
That's Israel, okay?
Israel.
Israel is the primary spoiler in this conversation.
I'm sure Trump's own personal ambitions, his own inability to recognize when he's lost,
playing a role here as well. But ultimately that could be dealt with.
Easier to convince Trump that, you know, this is probably the best possible option here,
given that he has in the past pulled out of certain military campaigns, like with Ansar
Allah. Now, of course, this is a much larger defeat than admitting that the Ansar Allah
movement and the Houthis had a lot better firepower than they previously thought.
This is a global crisis as opposed to just like trying to force, pry open the Red Sea
in the Bob Elmondeb Strait that the Houthis that effectively put a blockade on. So that's a little
bit different. However, we shall see what takes place. I've been arguing that Trump
and the U.S. Empire are unlikely to accept the results of the Six-Week War, i.e. defeat
against a mid-sized power. Declining empires are dumber and more erratic than a self-confident
empire. I'd expect Trump to unleash another round of table flipping. That's what Mark
James is saying, or was saying yesterday, and that is what happened.
Trita Parsey is speaking in the news nation. Let's take a look at what he had to say on
news nation. He says, I told news nation for diplomacy to
succeed in the U.S. and Iran. We need a strategy centered on diplomacy, compromise and win-win
thinking rather than on coercion, for surrender and zero sum thinking.
Yeah, that's not how America operates though, is it?
Thank you, Joe.
Trita Parsi is here, Executive Vice President
at the Quincy Institute.
To get a gauge on where things stand right now,
welcome to you.
How do you believe the Pentagon made the distinction
of a ceasefire yet Iran strikes and straight continue?
Well, at the end of the day,
the administration knows very well
that if the ceasefire ends
and there's a full scale military confrontation,
once again, nothing has changed
in the structure of the situation
that would enable the United States
to regain escalation dominance.
Iranians still have it. They can take out the oil infrastructure and several of the GCC
states and throw the entire global economy into a recession. So Trump has to be very careful. In
my view, this blockade should not have been pursued in the first place because Trump actually had
the edge during the first part of the ceasefire because he had managed to get what he wanted.
The Iranians had still not, but by imposing this blockade that is actually costing the US more than
is costing the Iranians, he has turned the tables in the negative way and is now faced with the
situation I think should be noted to all viewers we're having all prices that are currently higher
now during the ceasefire than we did during the war and that's all because of this blockade.
So as you characterize it how would the U.S. get the edge back at this point?
We need to get really serious about diplomacy in a matter that we have simply not seen so far
and the key problem in the diplomatic effort besides some of this tendency to go and try to
to engage diplomatically over Twitter and social media which is utterly counterproductive.
The main problem is that Trump still can get the Iranians to capitulate.
There's not going to be an Iranian capitulation, nor is it going to be an American capitulation.
There's going to have to be a compromise.
And as long as we're not pursuing a compromise, we're just making the situation worse.
What is a compromise when it comes to nuclear ambitions?
Well, there was a compromise before in which Iran has agreed to massive reductions to their
nuclear capabilities, which was the Obama deal that Trump blocked out of.
But even afterwards, Trump actually managed to get a better deal than Obama did through
the mediation of the Omanis.
He could have taken that deal, declared victory.
Instead he declared war.
And now we're in this much, much worse situation.
We need to find a pathway back to that original.
There is no world where you try to fight a middle power, a regional power like Iran.
And then in the process of bombing them and decapitating their leadership, they gain stronger
leverage as they did, right?
And this is not seen as an unambiguous defeat.
That's why I'm saying it's already over.
This is now a matter of how gracefully we can exit from the situation.
done. It's over. And this will have reverberations across time as well. There is no world where
Iran goes back to the pre-war deal, for example, without securing far greater concessions from
the American side. Whether those concessions be additional sanctions relief, which most
likely is going to come, or even a process where they have control over the Strait of
Hormuz, whether it's a tolling system, which is perfectly just for them to ask for the
record, or something else.
But what matters is, by way of blood, by way of war, they have secured a better position
overall.
This is just the reality.
America has seemingly failed to achieve any of their military objectives.
So right now, this is just a holding pattern on when America will admit the defeat.
They will never actually openly say, we lost.
That's not going to happen.
Just like we don't say we lost in Afghanistan.
Just like we don't say we lost in Iraq.
Just like we don't admit that we lost in Vietnam.
We still lost, right?
We'll never admit it.
But everyone that's reasonable will understand which side won and which side lost.
For Iran, as I've said over and over again from the beginning, the victory condition
was survival, okay?
The victory condition for Iran is survival of the regime or survival of the state, right?
without having to establish a puppet state or something like that.
Remaining sovereign is the victory condition for Iran, which they currently have achieved, right?
For the United States of America, the victory conditions have changed over and over again.
But let's be real, this is not about the United States of America's interests,
this is about Israel's interests. And therefore, Israel's victory condition was the death and
and destruction of the Iranian regime, and it collapsed to the state, turning Iran into
a failed state, Balkanizing it, fomenting civil war, one of those things that would turn
Iran into Libya. And that has also failed. So at this point, so at this point, the only
thing that remains is America coming to terms with the reality that they've lost this battle,
that they've lost this war.
Can you explain what Balkanizing means?
Yes, like the Yugoslavia, the glorious Yugoslavian Republic.
What we did in the Balkans is piece it up, piece by piece.
Like, chopping it up, splitting up the country into numerous ethnic enclaves.
What the goal is here for Israel, breaking it apart into smaller states.
Glorious, Yugoslavia mentioned.
You can always look forward to that, obviously.
Anyway, do you think Gen Z takes too much AAVE or is it fine?
That's crazy that you're asking me that question right now.
Let's continue.
The Trump had and it was in front of him in February of this year.
What does that path look like in your mind?
Again, it has to be to recognize that this is not going to be won militarily.
We have to stop thinking that our approach is going to be centred on military threats
and coercion and then have diplomacy on the sidelines.
It has to be centred on diplomacy and a compromise.
There are compromises that can be reached, there are still things that can be done that
can turn us into a victory for the United States, particularly if we manage to get concessions
from Iranians on the nuclear front and in return we offer them primary sanctions relief
that would allow American companies to also get into the Iranian market.
This would be the largest market that would have opened up since the fall of the Soviet
Union.
It could do a tremendous amount of positive for the American manufacturing industry.
So there's still ways to get to a win, but we have to think win-win instead of thinking
in terms of surrender.
Let Trump's team get their beats wet.
You guys know I'm agnostic on this.
I don't actually, I'm not even agnostic.
I'm supportive of it.
I take it back.
totally in support of the corrupt tyrants of the Trump regime, taking full advantage
of cutting side deals, as long as that means that we stave off from our endless war mongering.
Okay? I need you to understand, I said this with the cutter jet predicament. If it led
to Trump recalculating the negotiations process and like offer a little bit more breathing
room to Hamas. I was totally in favor of it. It didn't work out that way, obviously.
But if it meet, for example, I'll give you, I'll give you an example out of Cuba. If it
meant that Trump towers could exist, a Trump hotel could exist in Havana, Cuba. And that
meant that America was no longer doing a blockade. I would take that deal 100% of the time.
And I'm almost certain that the Cubans would take that deal as well.
Same thing goes for Iran.
If it meant that there was a gold tower in Tehran, a Trump tower that was made out of
complete gold, and that meant that sanctions relief took place in Iran, the Iranians would
take that deal 100% of the time.
Okay?
I do not care about the corruption.
I do not care about it at all.
What I care about is no longer waging war with these countries, allowing these countries
to remain sovereign. You take that deal 100% of the fucking time, and I know for a fact
that both the Iranians would do it and the Cubans would do it as well. Okay?
The real issue here, of course, is not Trump's ambitions necessarily, but Israel's ambitions.
Democrats could chirp all day every day and claim, oh, this is unacceptable. They're doing
side deals. They're fucking lining up their pockets. Who cares? Okay? If it means longstanding
piece, we take it. We take those Ws. Same principle, same principle on, you know, pulling
NATO troops out of Germany. It sucks that it's happening because Donald Trump is annoyed
with Germany because Germany is no longer, Germany is not interested in participating
in our quagmire in the Gulf. But if it means less NATO troops in Germany, fuck it, we ball.
We take those, okay? That's a W. That's a W regardless. If Trump's spectacular failures
would lead to South Korea and North Korea developing better relations with one another,
fuck it, we take those. Remember, I don't care. I don't care if it makes Trump look good.
What I care about is actual impact, okay? The impact that our decisions have on the ground,
the impact that it has on the lives of millions of people, tens of millions of people, hundreds
of millions of people all around the world. Okay? Here is Masoud Pazeshkiyan, arguably the
Iranian system's most outspoken pro-diplomacy voice, who famously apologized to the Gulf neighbors and
got yelled at by the rest of the country in the beginning phases of Iran's defensive war against
America and Israel. He's now saying U.S. demands are impossible and unfeasible. It reinforces
that there is internal consensus against one-sided concessions. Yes. Masoud Pazeshkiyan is the most
like pro-diplomacy, pro-western force in the government. Okay? Him coming out like this is
probably to show that they are unified, to show that they do have a unified front here.
chronic apologizer is hilarious. I mean, that's true. He has no power in Iran. No, that doesn't matter.
His powerlessness is utterly irrelevant in this conversation.
He is a representative of the most moderate, most pro-western forces in the country.
Do you understand? So as a figurehead of this coalition, of this, you know, part of the Iranian
government. They're part of the Iranian state that is the most moderate representative of
Iran. If he's coming out and saying America's demands are unsustainable and it's not going
to happen, then that means that the rest of the government is intact. There is consensus.
As a matter of fact, I'm willing to bet that the reason why Masoud Prashashkin came out
and said this is to show the Western world, or at least to the analysts who are smart enough
to understand what they're saying, that there is consensus within the IRGC and also within
the more moderate forces in the government, which Pzyshkian is a representative of.
It's a symbolic statement. It's not indicative of Pzyshkians like power or anything like
that. Okay. Lisa is learning. Thank you for the raid. Hope you had a good stream. We are
They're learning about the internal machinations of the IRGC and the Iranian government today.
Hopefully you guys will stick around to learn more.
Then they are dumb like why bomb UAE law?
What do you mean?
They are dumb.
America is dumb in this situation.
Iran has to reestablish military deterrence if they were to allow American naval assets
to transit unimpeded through the Strait of Hormuz, then they have no leverage.
Then America can do whatever it wants. You have to remember, this is a sovereign state.
Okay, this is a sovereign state. And its goals are to remain a sovereign state.
Right now, they have tremendous leverage over the United States of America by way of the leverage
that they have, the control that they have over the Strait of Hormuz, and the control
that they have over the energy markets around the globe.
Anyway, let's hear from Mohamed Ali Shabani, who had a conversation with Becky Anderson
on CNN International, I think. Maybe it's the American one. Well, first we'll do this.
First we'll do the Iranian ceasefire is not over. Statements from Pete Hexeth, Pete Kegsbreath.
And then we'll talk about the China angle here because it's pretty important.
And Secretary Pete Hexeth says that the ceasefire with Iran is not over, despite renewed clashes
in the Strait of Hormuz. Speaking of the news briefing at the Pentagon, he said Donald Trump
would make a decision over whether any incident represents a violation of the ceasefire. And
he urged Iran to be prudent in any actions they take.
No, the ceasefire is not over. Ultimately, this is a separate and distinct project.
But this is weakness. This is weakness. Iran striking America's newfound additional ally,
which was already an ally, the UAE, and also striking commercial vessels to stop them from
transiting the straight and then America turning around and saying, no, no, no, they didn't
actually violate the ceasefire.
When they're obviously firing, they haven't ceased their fire.
That is bitch made, okay?
This is a recognition from the American side that Iran has all the cards.
That's what it is. Just like whenever Israel in the aftermath of a ceasefire never ceases
the fire and therefore Israel has the leverage, the upper hand in those incidents, Iran has
the upper hand all the same in a similar manner in this one.
And we expected there would be some, some churn at the beginning, which, which happened.
And we said we would defend and defend aggressively and we absolutely have Iran knows that.
So then the question is, again, this gives unbelievable opportunity to Iran, right?
Because now the question is how much can Iran bomb other countries like, you know, the UAE,
for example, or how much can Iran actually hit at naval assets of the America side?
And then have America still act as though there's a ceasefire going on.
America try to transit more oil tankers or any other vessels through the
trade of hormones. What is the red line? Okay, this is a unique opportunity for
Iran to keep pushing if they choose to do so. And ultimately, the
president's gonna make a decision whether anything were to escalate into a
violation of a ceasefire, but certainly we would urge Iran to be prudent in the
I am Iranian and I decline. Nope Iranian here. Not true at all. He has no power in Iran. I'm explaining to you
I live in Iran. There are multiple groups in Iran that is not like you say, dude
If you are not getting money from IRGC, you are missing out. They would pay you a lot
What fucking money do they have to pay me brother? What are you talking about?
Like I get the point you're trying to make the point you're trying to make is that all you're glazing the IRGC
Except the only thing I'm doing is reporting accurately on the things that are happening
Okay? If that makes you feel like the IRGC is in a better position than the United States of America, well, take it up with the United States of America. Okay?
I'm not in the business of defending one side over the other. I have said, whenever the Iranian side is in a worse predicament overall, I've openly admitted it.
admitted it, like the situation where the combat search and rescue operations took place.
For the Iranian side, it was incredibly important for them to be able to secure the prisoner
of war, the American pilot, or at least the weapons officer.
They failed to do so.
I openly admitted that that was a horrible look for the Iranian side, that they were
were not able, they were completely unable to, to stop the Americans from, to stop the
Americans from engaging in this combat search and rescue operation. Now, we don't know
where the pilot is. We don't know where the weapons officer, the weapons specialist is
either. I don't know why America hasn't actually brought those guys around and then paraded
It's awfully suspicious, weird. So we'll see. We'll see where that goes. But, you know, if
there's something that, if there's something that, that looks bad for Ron, I'm just going to say it
openly. I have no reason or no investment in, in making it seem as though one side has a
is a significant upper hand over the other
if that's not the truth.
Okay.
Let's continue.
Is that they take to keep that underneath this threshold.
This is about the straits,
this is about freedom of navigation,
this is about international waterways,
this is about free flow of commerce,
all the things that happened before
and only Iran is contesting.
So right now the ceasefire certainly holds,
but we're gonna be watching very, very closely.
Well, Pete Hegseth also said the United States
is in control of the Strait of Hormuz,
confirming that two Americans-
What is this, Hassan?
The Iran Lego guy said it was a Bosch attempt
to retrieve the uranium.
Oh, okay.
If the Iranian Lego guy said it.
And commercial ships have crossed through it
with hundreds more lining up to make the journey.
President Trump has directed U.S. Central Command to restart the free flow of commerce
through the Strait of Hormuz under the umbrella of project freedom.
To be clear, this operation is separate and distinct from Operation Epic Fury.
Project freedom is defensive in nature, focused in scope, and temporary in duration, with
one mission, protecting innocent commercial shipping from Iranian aggression.
American forces won't need that.
Innocent commercial shipping, as opposed to evil and guilty commercial shipping.
We will not be protecting the guilty commercial shipping, just the innocent ones.
Enter Iranian waters or airspace, it's not necessary.
We're not looking for a fight, but Iran also cannot be allowed to block innocent countries
and their goods from an international waterway.
Iran is the clear aggressor, harassing civilian vessels, threatening mariners from every nation,
indiscriminately, and weaponizing a critical choke point for its own financial benefit,
at least trying to.
For too long, Iran has been harassing ships shooting at civilian tankers from all nations
and trying to impose a tolling system.
Iran's plan, a form of international extortion, is unacceptable.
That ends with project freedom.
Two U.S. commercial ships, along with American destroyers, have already safely transited the
strait, showing the lane is clear.
We know the Iranians are embarrassed by this fact.
They said they control the strait, they do not.
So American ships led the way, commercial and military, shouldering the initial risk
from the front, as Americans always do.
And right now, hundreds more ships from nations around the world are lining up to transit.
CENTCOM, along with partner nations, is in active communication with hundreds of ships,
shipping companies and insurers.
All of these ships from all around the world want to get out of the Iranian trap that they
have been stuck inside. As a direct gift for...
Were they trying to collect tolls before the war? No, of course not. Hmm, I wonder
what what events could have triggered this new toll system and the blockade on
the Strait of Hormuz? Hmm, hmm, for 47 years ships were able to cross the Strait
of Hormuz unimpeded. Ships were able to transit through the Strait of Hormuz, 100 ships at
a time on a daily basis. Perhaps there was some event that triggered this blockade.
I wonder what it is. Now, of course, I'm an old man, so perhaps that's the reason why
I remember a time when ships could transit 100 on a daily basis from the Strait. I wonder
what that was it's just what could have taken place from the United States to
the world we have established a powerful red white and blue dome over the
street American destroyers are on station supported by hundreds of fighter
jets helicopters back in my day you could just cross the Strait of Hormuz with
ease drones and surveillance aircraft providing 24-7 overwatch for peaceful
commercial vessels, except Iran's of course.
Well, US correspondent David Blevins has the latest from Washington.
We're now in week nine of this war, so the sound bites from the Pentagon have become
familiar.
We're locked and loaded.
Our will is unshakable, warning Iran of overwhelming devastation.
But on the whole, I think that Pete Hegzeff, the self-styled Secretary of War, sounded
less combative this morning.
suggesting not just that the ceasefire is intact, but presenting Project Freed and this
operation to secure the Strait of Hormuz as separate and distinct from those combat operations.
General Dan Cain, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had paved the way for him
in many ways by outlining some of the attacks that have taken place, but describing them
as below the threshold for a return to major combat operations. He described those attacks
is low harassing, far Iran grasping at straws. And both men seem to be shifting the focus
from the combat operations to this attempt to secure the strait so that we can see marine
traffic moving through it again. They claimed two U.S. commercial ships have already transited
that Iran was embarrassed by the U.S. blockade. They said hundreds more were lining up to
transit in the coming days and described as you heard as a gift to the world. What Pete
Higgs said was a powerful red, white and blue dome over the street. So the other thing I think
worth pointing out is that they're talking about this as a temporarily mission, stressing that-
What is this? I do remember you inaccurately reported that there's internet Iran and got
called out immediately. Who's cash? I'm not cash, but tell, please don't say that. I am getting harassed.
No, I told you that Iran has domestic internet. They have domestic internet. It's it's fully
functional. They also sometimes have access to the global internet as well by way of VPNs. That's
the reason why you can hear from, you know, Iranian people every now and then. And then there's also
obviously like the government allowed access to the internet for people who are at least aligned
politically with the government. I don't know if you know this, but Iran has been directly
under attack. The idea that, the idea of the countries that are directly under attack by
the American, the most powerful nation on the planet are also going to create, yes, I know
this was two months ago. Okay, so if you know that, why are you bringing that up then? Because
It seems like you're the one who inaccurately is misreporting what my statement was at the time.
What is the, what's the argument here that you misunderstood what I was saying two months ago?
Because you continue to do it?
Wait, why are you, then why are you agreeing with what I'm saying currently and then simultaneously
saying I'm misreporting on something. I'm not. Hassanabe, fuck you. Use the word intranet.
Okay, sure. Intranet. Not internet. Intranet. Are you actually cash patel, by the way?
like, is this genuinely a cash patel in the chat trying to duke it out? It wouldn't shock me.
The rest of the world that needs the Strait of Hormuz more than the Americans do and say they're
They're getting ready to hand back responsibility to the rest of the world and they expect them
to step up soon.
You said that.
No not Keshmetal, although I like the dude, well that makes one of us, huh?
How's your, how's your girlfriend doing?
Huh?
Spider cash.
She holding hands lately.
How's your international country music superstar girlfriend?
That's not a massage asset doing right now.
You think who is she doing right now is a better question.
Probably.
Now we know this is 100% cash Patel because there is no
one on the planet outside of Kashpatel. And yes, this includes his immediate family members
that would say, I'm not Kashpatel, although I like the dude. Very suspicious. Brother,
your mom and dad wouldn't fucking openly say that they like Kashpatel right now.
Great work agent. Yes. Keep up the good work, sir. As the ninth director of the FBI, you
have done tremendous damage to this agency, okay?
Can we not glorify adultery? It's not good optics. I will always glorify, uh, the, the
director of the FBI getting cooked publicly and then having that, uh, be reflected in
the paper of record.
Only the White House chorus, monies, dinner, shooter, flux of cash, though, I think they,
I think that was a dis.
A five foot three tall brown pockets are being in Valhalla is my favorite thought cash is
given me? Yes. What do you mean? Of course he's going to be in Valhalla.
He got a little quiet after you pointed out the cookie. Yeah, it's very strange. Cash,
come back to us, spider cash. I did notice he stopped responding after I called out his
girlfriend, possibly maybe, maybe he left the chat to go check in on his girlfriend.
like, furiously texting her right now. It's like, where are you right now? Why? Why is
your location not on? Why are you not responding? International country music superstar girlfriend.
Why is your location services not on? Babe, don't worry about it, Cash. She's just probably
in the shower. Okay. She just, her phone is probably dead. That's what it is. Okay. She
didn't turn off her location services to go have some fun at lunch. Yeah, maybe he got
locked out of his computer.
The attacks by Iran so far are below the threshold of restarting major combat operations. What
is that threshold?
And then for Secretary Hegzeff, are there still
concerns about mines in the street?
And can you clarify these reports of kamikaze dolphins
that we've heard about?
I haven't heard the kamikaze dolphin thing.
It's like sharks with laser beams, right?
The threshold of restarting is a political decision
above my pay grade.
What I'll say is it's low harassing fire right now.
It feels like Iran is grasping its straws
to try to do something across the Southern flank.
To your question, David,
their command and control structure remains very fractured.
And I think they're struggling to maintain control.
That username is for accounts.
You know, I know, Cash Patel,
Cash Patel has often used spider cash
as his actual username.
There is a non-zero chance
that that unironically is the FBI director in the chat.
I don't think it's super high that the spider cash that we have in the chat right now is
the director of the FBI, but the chances of it are not zero. They're not 100%. They're
like around 50-50, I would say.
Don't show the FBI chatter.
Just saying.
I I I like to think that it is actually now national on at the edge, but
We're still it's still pretty low level kinetics at this point in time
And I can't confirm or deny whether we have kamikaze dolphins, but I can confirm they don't
ultimately
The any follow-on effort if there are minds identified would be something that
Are our some of our units could undertake or the world could undertake?
But right now we know we have a lane of safe passage
that commercial shipping can flow through.
Day 67 of the war has been dominated yet again
by the Straits of Hormuz.
The United States has taken some very ambitious
and fairly aggressive action, it says,
to clear the Straits.
And they've sent a couple of warships into the Straits
and they say that two American flag cargo ships
have come out of the Straits protected by those two warships.
Lots of claims and counterclaims.
The Iranians say that they've attacked American warships.
well, if they have, it hasn't been very effective.
And the Americans have said that they've destroyed at least
six fast attack boats, which were sent out presumably
against some of the ships in the area.
More claims will doubtless be made,
and we'll see where they go in the next day or so.
Meanwhile, a fire broke out at Fujara.
And Fujara is this big oil terminal in the UAE.
Fujara is really important because there
is a pipeline that goes from the straits themselves
right through to Fujara.
So though it only takes two million barrels a day,
ships are able to load up a Fajara
without going through the straits at all,
just because they're at the end of the pipeline.
And this fire that occurred at Fajara,
the UAE says, was caused by an Iranian drone.
Maybe it was.
Pete Hegseth has said that the ceasefire still holds.
Well, maybe that could be true,
because at the moment neither side
has gone back to all-out attacks.
And it may be that the Iranians
trying to scale their reactions to all of this in a careful way, we'll see.
But behind all of this is a really ambitious American strategy.
And that's strategy they say they've been working on for quite some time.
It has three elements.
The first element is that over mainland Iran, right deep into the inland areas, the Americans
are offering a big zone in which they aim to be able to take on anything that moves.
threat that might move to the coast. They say they will destroy deep inland inside Iran.
And they'll do this with the use of drones, of satellite intelligence, of...
Yeah. In the 60s, Jaeger, who were infiltrated, left his movements through spy tactics. Nowadays,
the FBI director just has to make a Twitch account and then complain about it and then
get dunked on because his girlfriend is having sex with someone else and then leave the chat.
chat. He asked a very sus question in ex-U. C.'s chat. Do you know anyone related to the
recent events near the president, Felix? Val anti-cheat detects other cheats and bans.
Spider cash has been timed out for 600 seconds. I would dog walk you on this trash game. Okay.
Now I literally, okay. Now I am, this is further proof that it is actually a cash Patel in the
chat. This is his real account. Do you know anyone related to the recent events near the
President Felix? Isn't it wonderful how fucking stupid the current administration is that
like there is an again non-zero chance that this could literally be Kashmertel of aircraft
and of ballistic missiles and cruise missiles. So use everything to prevent the Iranians
getting any of their forces towards the coast. That's the first element.
Just fucking day drunk.
Conducting his investigations.
The second element is over the Strait of Hormuz themselves.
And they describe a dome. That's what they call it. They say they've put a dome over the Strait of Hormuz.
And that dome, it's not an aerial dome, it is a military.
What is this?
Cash Patel can save New York.
Pfft.
Chucks and beers, woo, hello lovelies, have a good night.
Yeah, good night.
The more I see this, the more...
Bro!
Arrangement whereby they say they'll take on anything in the air, on the ground, at sea or even underneath the sea.
If they see any sort of threat developing anywhere in this zone, they'll go after it.
And they can go after it in a matter of seconds.
Not 10 minutes, but 100 seconds, 110, 120 seconds.
seconds. That's the kill chain that they're able to bring to bear inside this dome which
they claim now to have established over the Strait of Hormuz itself. And the third element,
and this is in a way the most interesting element, is they say they have demined a channel
that runs towards the coast of the UAE and then runs really close to the coast right
up over the point and down the coast of Oman. And this channel they say is clear, it's
mind they've been working on it secretly for some time and ships can go into this
channel and with American help can get out of the Gulf. Pete Hegseth said
today that hundreds of ships, hundreds is what he said, are lining up to take this
channel. Well we'll see pretty soon if that is the case. The fact is what the
Americans are putting together here is a very very ambitious plan. We'll know by
the end of the week whether hundreds of ships have taken advantage of it. If they
haven't, then the Americans probably will only have the option of escalating further.
And then the ceasefire really will be over.
Zack Polanski, you recently said...
We'll do the Zack Polanski stuff in a second.
We still have situations to be monitored.
The Iranian military is now officially denied and launched missile and drone attacks against
the UAE yesterday and today and warns that any action taken by the UAE against Iranian
territory will result in a crushing response.
I don't believe them, by the way.
sources that previously said to the Iranian media that the UAE attacks were the result
of US adventurism without taking responsibility themselves.
Barr's news carried an interview with a former MP today calling the attacks deserved without
knowing where they came from. To be clear, Sheamus says, I don't buy this. Everybody
on the Iranian side seems to be denying it, but also winking that it's awesome. But if
I was trying to further drive a wedge between Saudi Arabia and the UAE and ratchet up pressure
on the GCC's ineffectual nature, this is what I would do.
fake that claim came from a fake account they took credit I don't I it's they definitely
did it okay it's ridiculous it's it's totally ridiculous to assume that anybody but the
Iranians dunked on the Fujairah ports, like that's crazy.
Oh, there was also this, remember, hold on, where is it? There's also this, let's talk,
let's hear from the Iranian-Chinese relations. The foreign minister, Abbas Arakshi,
is visiting Beijing today to talk to his counterpart in China.
I want to bring in Mohamed Ali Shabani now from London. He's the editor of Anwash Media.
That's an online publication focused on the region, well sourced on Iran.
Mohamed, it's good to have you. Peter Hegseth then insists the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran is holding.
building. What are your sources telling you on where Iran is on these talks?
Well, the foreign minister of Iran, as we speak, is on his way to China. I heard of the Trump
Xi summit, and I think there are efforts being made to salvage this negotiation, which is
being conducted with the Alpha Pakistan. I believe the Iranians are trying to push for
the Chinese to have a greater role in assisting with the escalation and also assisting perhaps
with the nuclear side of this kind of contention, because as you know, the contention between
Iran and the U.S. is not just about the nuclear program, it's also about the straight up
reforms, about the region, about the missile program, etc.
Yeah.
I mean, just how important do you think this trip to Beijing by the Iranian foreign minister
is?
I think Iran is cognizant of the need to have some form of guarantor for whatever kind of
agreement is going to come out with Trump.
They know that he is frankly fickle.
He's shown in negotiations with the European Union, for instance, that even if he signs
something, there's no guarantee that he may not change his mind.
We've seen this, for instance, with the tariffs.
So I think, apart from the substance of any negotiation, what kind of role China may have
in enabling that.
I think they're also looking at the Chinese and also the Russians as some kind of third-party
actor that can make sure that if Trump does turn around and violence, whatever may be
agreed that there's some kind of cost to it, but at the very least, that there's some
kind of consequence.
Do you believe that this is a growing divide?
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It inside Iran.
Between the diplomatic track and the foreign minister and the IRGC, particularly as hard
Lana's view, negotiations, frankly, is a sign of weakness.
I mean, Iwan is not a monolith, there's absolutely a divergence of views, but when it comes to
the issue of how to deal with this war, I believe that there is a hardline clique which
is quite isolated.
And what I mean by isolated is that we've seen a remarkable cross kind of partisan consensus
on the need for diplomatic engagement.
And the people backing engagement is not just the reformist president or the foreign ministry.
In fact, the person needing the negotiations is the parliament speaker, who himself is
a former IRGC commander.
So we're seeing a click of hardliners being opposed to negotiations under current circumstances,
but they mostly have an issue when it comes to a divergence of use over tactics.
Ultimately, I think all of them are looking for the same objective.
And the same objective is they understand there needs to be some kind of deal with the
United States.
It's about how do you get to that deal and how can you achieve the optimal outcome in
terms of in terms of the concessions from Trump.
And the revolutionary guard have been very upfront about the fact that the straight of
form is leverage for Iran.
I want to show you this map released by the IRGC, showing what they say is a widening
of Iranian control over the straight of form.
the area. You see the two fat red lines there. The area starts with a line between the western
most tip of Iran. It has some island all the way around to the east there, which is the
bottom of that, meeting that red line is the coastline of the United Arab Emirates. And
this relates, the release of this latest map coincided with what Emirati authorities said
was a drone attack yesterday on an oil port in Fujairah in the UAE. That was caused by
a fire, it caused a fire. What kind of message is the Revolutionary Guard sending here?
So for the Iranian state, beyond the government, the state as a whole, they look at control
over this waterway, this maritime choke point as a major... Did I miss or say hermose?
the coastline of the United Kingdom of Iranian control over the straight-of-four Moussi area.
One more time. And the revolutionary guard have been very upfront about the fact that
the straight-of-four Moussi is leverage for Iran. I want to show you this map released by the IRGC
showing what they say is a widening of Iranian control over the straight-of-four Moussi area.
Okay. Confirmed. Confirmed. We're having an impact. Straight of whole moosey.
You see the two red lines there. The area starts with a line between the western most tip of Iran.
to clear some island all the way around to the east there, which is the bottom of that,
meeting that red line, is the coastline of the United Arab Emirates. And this relates
the release of this latest map coincided with what Emirati authorities said was a drone
attack yesterday on an oil port in Fujairah in the UAE. That was caused by a fire, caused
a fire. What kind of message is the revolutionary guard sending here?
I wonder, I wonder what the message is.
So for the Iranian state, beyond the government, the state as a whole, they look at control
over this waterway, this maritime choke point as a major source of leverage in any kind of
negotiation. They're not going to go ahead and just give up that leverage, especially
especially in the middle of talks with Trump.
If you look at those two thick red lines,
there are two very interesting aspects to them
and where they're situated.
Number one, they want to make sure that for Jaira,
this coastal kind of port of the UAE
is not going to be used the way it currently has
to bypass the straight-up hormones, that's number one.
Number two, the US military has gone out
and tried to tell shippers and tried to tell insurers
that we can try to help guide you through hormones
but using a different channel.
If you look at the map, very close to the Omani coast.
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In the chat so by drawing this secret line with you on is trying to say is it doesn't matter if you sell next to a month
And it's our coast you're not gonna sell food is waterway without coordination with us beforehand
whatsoever, so we've seen already we have some sources telling us for instance that they have been talks between you on a
South Korea about assets, but you want one some kind of talk
Fascinating, all right. Geopolitics have been reduced. That's crazy. And they don't try to dig
deeper because they've been taught that politics is yucky. Well, it's a comfort that you get to have
if you live in the United States of America in the heart of empire. The only impact that you
ever feel is if, you know, gas prices are going up. And even then you can dilute yourself into
thinking that there's other reasons for why that's taking place. That's just how it goes. And that's
probably a big part of the reason why a lot of people get away with yelling about what I represent
to a lot of Americans by simply saying like, oh, this guy, you know, I'm offering analysis,
but a lot of people can turn around and be like, oh, he's just like defending our enemies.
A lot of Americans don't think too deeply about why these sorts of events are taking place.
You know, just saw steal the story, please will you also be covering 30 years of horrors?
Yes.
They have to cancel all the formula one race in the Gulf this season because of the conflict and I find it incredibly funny.
funny yet. It's just like, it's just very funny that people don't understand why that's
happening though. I'd be a lot less sad if I didn't listen to this damn broadcast. Yeah,
but you're informed. I think it's important to always be informed. Like, yes, the, the
situation is worthy of being monitored. Sure. Unfortunately, when you monitor the situation,
you also get sad.
Let's look at the New York Times analysis on the Chinese-Iranian relationship. China seeks
an advantage with both Trump and Iran as war evolves. Now, of course, this analysis is
always going to be kind of hawkish against China because it's obviously a paper record.
And therefore, we'll reflect the views of the State Department. Oh, there was also this
as well. I wanted to show you a crazy chart from J.P. Morgan. We all know the narrative
the U.S. is energy independent, but the spike in U.S. gasoline prices over the past two months
has outpaced everywhere except Southeast Asia, the region most dependent on oil from the Persian Gulf.
So Americans are experiencing some semblance of impact. Maybe many of them don't understand why,
Hi, but...
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For us.
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That's a little too small.
Let me try it on.
Let me try it on.
My dad loves that I'm doing suits now.
So he's just like buying a bunch of suits and blazers for me and Marat as well.
Otherwise, Marat will get very sad.
Why he kind of smooth with it?
Oh, it's fucking Roger Stone.
Of course he's smooth with it, unfortunately.
Anyway, let's get back to China.
China seeks an advantage with both Trump and Iran as war evolves.
Let's take a look by Edward Wong.
As President Trump tries to sort out his next steps in the Iran war, China has taken its own actions to assure that a benefits from whatever outcome eventually emerges, obviously.
China is prodding Iranian officials to negotiate with the United States while also quietly allowing its companies to give Iran commercial support that would help Iran's military if Trump dives back into a full blown war.
Yeah, how dare China not listen to our ridiculous arbitrary demands that we're making.
Uh, after we have, uh, uh, been caught in flagrant violation of international law, um,
how dare they?
The Chinese government has not taken a strong position on the war.
It has multiple goals and acts with caution.
So it's hedging officials and analysts say the war will no doubt be an important issue
in talks between Mr. Trump, issues you're paying China's leader, uh, when they meet
in Beijing for a two day summit scheduled to start May 14th.
On the one hand, having the United States bogged down in yet another war, the Middle
is advantageous to China. The U.S. military has quickly expanded into more enormous amount of
munitions, depleting stockpiles that will be critical in any future conflict with China,
and the war diverts the Trump administration's attention from Asia. But China also sees a
benefit in trying to help end the war, which Mr. Trump and Israel started more than two months ago.
Earlier in the war, Iran's military effectively closed the trade of Hormuz to most ships while
allowing vessels carrying Iranian oil to cross, including ones bound for China. But the Chinese
economy has still been hurt by the surge in global energy prices, of course.
And the country is also feeling an impact from a U.S. naval blockade that prevents some ships from leaving Iran's ports.
Although some observe that Beijing might favor a prolonged war in Iran, policy discourse in Beijing in fact favors the escalation said young son,
a scholar of China at the Stimson Center for an Affairs Research Group in Washington.
Both China and Russia have asked Iran to continue negotiations with the Americans, said two
Iranian officials.
Last Wednesday, Mr. Trump spoke to President Vladimir Putin of Russia about the war.
And Secretary of State Mark Rubio and Wang Yi, his Chinese counterpart, discussed the
war in a call on Thursday, said Liu Pengyu, the Chinese embassy spokesman in Washington.
That's a cool mural.
Man, these guys are goaded with the murals, huh?
I hope it's not AI.
I hope that the art was created ethically, probably is AI though. Mr. Trump already postponed
the, they love dude, dude.
If you think Americans like AI, holy shit. I mean, Chinese people love AI like countries
that are outside of countries outside of the West love AI a lot more than countries in
the Western hemisphere, Western sphere of influence love AI, like people fucking go
Ape shit bananas the third world. Oh my god. They fucking love a I so much
Not even just a third world, but like developed nations as well just like not the immediate Western countries
Mr. Trump already postponed the summit with mr. She once
Once because of the war he wants to go to Beijing in a position of strength
official say, and not with an unresolved conflict that continues to royal global markets and sap
us military resources. Duh. For China, there's the issue of our blockade. Said Rush Doshi,
a scholar at Georgetown university council and foreign relations worked on China policy in the
Biden White House. For us, there's the issue of China's support for Iran. Good luck. By the way,
good luck trying to stop them from continuing developing long standing and more meaningful
relations, including maybe some semblance of a defense arrangement forming here. Obviously,
China is a lot more shy about putting pen to paper on these sorts of things. The only defense
relationship that China has is with North Korea, and that's a holdover from the Korean War.
Outside of that, they don't have any official defense relationships, not even with the country
of Pakistan, which many have called China's own Israel. Okay, I Google D. Why is the first thing
that comes up is that you're a dog zapper and not your extensive media career. That's not
wearing a suit is such a lame attempt to be professional. So maybe people will take his
opinion seriously and forget he's a dog zapping terrorist supporter. More zaps.
That's right. It's not even working anymore. What the fuck? What the fuck? It's crazy.
How dare you? You might have covered this previously, but China has shred of open-claw parties,
which is so fucking nuts to me. Yeah, China loves AI. They do. They really love AI. Yes,
I'm one of the funniest things that haters do is they don't realize how unhinged and
unbelievably parasocial day sound where like when they come in here and they're
like I know everything about you and I know what makes you tick and I assume
that this will be very frustrating for you I'm gonna say this I'm gonna say
these things with the hopes that it actually frustrates you it won't
That person did not just Google kind of worked. Yeah, no, it definitely did. Uh-oh, lol, kind of worked. Yes, chatter.
It did. I'm devastated. It's over for me. It's over. It definitely worked. I'm very frustrated, as you can tell.
I was learning through an app called Hello Chinese. It was a great learning app, right?
And then one day completely removed the first course and replaced it with AI
Generated Course with AI Helpers and AI Art. They run up putting out an apology
saying that they're a China-based company and weren't aware of the
perceptions around AI in the West and they allowed you to use the non-AI course
again. That's funny.
It's chauvinist and teleglobal south how to use our problematic tech i.e. climate degrowth wait, what I
Personally don't like AI. It's just that's it. That's my own
That's my own
Assessment okay. Oh, yeah, I said me and kaya on Twitter and all the fucking people that are like
No, you're not supposed to be in on the joke. This is supposed to be devastating for you. Like it's so funny
No, you can't make a joke out of my close desperate attempts cancel you know
How dare you how dare you
Anyway, where were we
Stop laughing. This is supposed to frustrate you, dude.
I don't think people understand. I've been getting called a terrorist for two years prior
to being called a dog zapper, okay? It's a downgrade. You went from calling me a terrorist
to calling me a dog zapper, a dog shocker. It is an unbelievable downgrade. It's not.
It's okay. Neither is correct.
Not for white women. Whatever. Yeah, an upgrade from the Gucci shirt though. Yeah, Gucci shirt, enjoyer.
Where were we? Let's continue. American intelligence agencies of information that a Chinese company
may have tried to send a shipment of shoulder fired missiles to Iran. Chinese companies have
also shipped Iran material that is considered dual use, meaning it can serve civilian and
military purposes. Everything is dual use. Um, literally everything can be considered
dual use. Okay. Uh, and after the US Navy blockade started last month, Marines found
material on an Iranian flagship that Mr. Trump said was not very nice and perhaps a gift
from China. I was a little surprised, but because I have very good relationship and
I thought I had an understanding with President Xi, he told CNBC, but that's all right. That's
the way war goes, right?
That came a week after Mr. Trump told Fox news that he had written a letter to Mr.
asking him not to send weapons to Iran. He said Mr. Xi wrote him a letter back saying
that essentially he's not doing that. What does that even mean essentially? Again, we
can't, we, we can't know if what Trump is saying is correct because Trump is the least
reliable narrator of events. But, you know, we can only judge America's actions against
China, right? And America's actions against China have not been so aggressive since Liberation
Day, weirdly enough.
Mr. Trump's apparent national loss was another sign of his drive to keep his summit with
Mr. Xi on track. Months ago, Mr. Trump and top aides had intended to focus on tariffs
and a potential trade agreement and talks with Mr. Xi, but now discussions over Iran
or could overshadow that. Officials in Beijing are holding off serious pressure on Iran until
there's a direct ask from President Trump, said Mrs. Yun, who conducted interviews in
the Chinese capital recently, because officials want to amplify positive relations with the
United States. They might take seriously any ask that Mr. Trump makes of China on Iran, she said.
that this is, for me, that's the only thing that I think has any weight, okay?
Like the Chinese side leaning into whatever concessions or whatever demands America has
in an effort to, uh, to, you know, cut up whatever we'll cut up a specific deal for themselves.
This is not just the New York times. This estimation is what I'm saying. Uh, Mr. Liu,
the spokesman for the Chinese embassy said in a statement that keeping the area safe
and stable ensuring unimpeded passage serves the common interests of the international
community. He criticized the U S naval blockade as a dangerous and irresponsible move. He
did not mention the Iranis military's attacks on ships. The Iran had not granted safe passage.
you added that the pressing up priority is to prevent by all means every lapse in fighting.
To the cause where with al-Busaraqshi, the Iranian foreign minister, he added China's
special envoy to the Middle East also traveled to the region, China played a crucial role behind
the scenes in getting Iran to accept the terms of the ceasefire several foreign officials said,
adding that diplomats from some of the countries involved in the conflict are encouraging China
to stay engaged. Like other officials interviewed for this article, they spoke on the condition of
of anonymity to describe sensitive diplomacy is for Chinese shipments to Iran.
Mr. Liu said, we handle the export of military products prudently and responsibly and strictly
control the export of dual use articles. In Iran, officials in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
are talking about the possibility of growing their ties to China after the war to get the type
of military aid that the Chinese officials have given Pakistan over many years, said Ali Viz,
the director of the Iran Project for the International Crisis Group. Maybe I said that
this would be the smart thing to do from the Iranian perspective.
What is this?
Hassan Hassan, your news reading precision is staggering, mapping narratives,
catching contradictions. Okay, stop with the chat GPT, please. Jesus Christ.
I write in the eye paper that the geopolitical repercussions of the Iran war are likely to
be far more reaching than those of the invasion of Iraq. This is my estimate. This is my estimation
as well. In Iraq, the U.S. at least won the war militarily in three weeks, only to lose a piece
later. In Iran, the U.S. has lost not just a piece, but the war itself. There's also another,
there's also another major difference here. America was not meant to win the Iraq war, right?
America achieved its ultimate goal of securing the energy ministry, it was the first thing
that they did, and also securing the oil fields, which they also did, right? The rest was just
the opportunity for the military industrial complex to continue churning profits. However,
However, in this circumstance, with Iran, there is a genuine issue with the international
energy markets in a state of crisis.
This does not benefit capital.
Okay?
The invasion of Iran and securing long-standing military defense contracts was beneficial
for American capital, and it did not actually disrupt the energy markets in this spectacular
fashion.
So in this sorghum stance, there is a real issue.
So that's also a big difference.
This raises a significant question, Marx, as to whether U.S. global primacy is feasible
anymore.
If a country like Iran can not only deny the U.S. victory, but impose on it a strategic
defeat through the use of technology and geography, it is not only the reliability
of America's security umbrella that comes under question, but also its efficiency.
These repercussions will not be limited to the Middle East alone, but will likely be felt
globally.
What emerges instead is arguably a different kind of global order, one not defined by dominance,
but by mutual denial.
In this world, great powers cannot simply impose their will, and smaller states can
resist them at tolerable cost.
The result is not chaos, but constraint.
The danger for the U.S. is not irrelevance.
It's that it continues to pursue a strategy designed for a world that no longer exists.
The same is true for countries like the U.K. that have largely chosen to rely on American
military dominance.
American hegemony promised control, but the Iran War revealed the limitations of American
power.
the gap between promise and reality lies the likely end of an era. The winners will ultimately
be those who adjust. It's a whole lot of words that basically say American hegemony is over
and multi-polarity is imminent, or not even imminent, but it's here. It's already here.
The first shot across the bow was the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This is part of the reason why
some consider Russia's actions to be anti-imperialist. I do not, but although Russia was behaving
in an erratic and insane and unjustifiable manner with its invasion of Ukraine, the reality is
that it was the first significant attack against the American unipolarity, the American
in hegemonic power status. The fact that, while Putin very clearly could not achieve
all of its military objectives, the very fact that they were capable of overtaking Ukrainian
soil militarily and holding it militarily in spite of the American side of the Western
forces offering as much support as possible to Ukraine.
This was a significant step against American hegemony.
The fact that the United States of America and the Western forces could not stop a regional
power like Russia from exercising its will upon the Ukrainian people.
So EU blocks funds for key Chinese solar energy parts from November for citing security
concerns as imported inverters could be used to manipulate energy networks to gain unauthorized
access to operational data, which could lead to countrywide blackouts as the financial time.
So they're doing another self-imposed restriction for no reason.
So to sum it up, the EU cut itself off from Russian oil and gas, is suffering from unprecedented
energy supply issues from the Middle East because of the sugar hormones, again, due to American
in adventurism in the region, military adventurism,
has industrial energy costs two to three times higher
than its competition, produces 40% less electricity
than the US is by having 33% more people
and 75% less electricity than China.
And their move right now in this context
is to deliberately raise the cost
and slow the roll out of Chinese solar,
the cheapest and fastest deploying form of electricity
in the market on the flimsy pretext
that it's a security threat.
As Arnold Bertrand reports, the bigger security threat would be having your industrial base
relocate to countries that didn't voluntarily price themselves out of energy or for that
matter ensuring that any new AI infrastructure or industrial projects gets built anywhere
but Europe beyond parity.
I mean, I don't even care about the AI stuff here, but I will say, what's a larger security
concern. Tremendous instability born out of the collapse of your energy grid. The fact
that you're experiencing an unprecedented energy crisis and you're not even creating
alternative modes because of security concerns. I find that to be very stupid. But then again,
this is how the EU has always operated. So I'll talk at the Davos summit about how middle
powers can align with one another and finally dig out some kind of sovereignty for themselves.
So it was always fucking bullshit.
I see more and more voice-affiliated with the IRGC, now the real power in Iran, openly
saying that the failure of Iran has been that it was too shy about aligning itself with
China and Russia. Bro, did they interview me? That's crazy. This is my, this is my assessment
as well. China and Russia and was instead trying to preserve its independence, more
so China than even Russia, in my opinion. Okay. And was trying to preserve its independence.
It said, they say they need to mortgage out part of the country to China to end up where
Pakistan is across the Persian Gulf, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are trying
to get China to play a bigger diplomatic role on April 20th,
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Assad, the Arabian
called Mr. Xi to talk about the war.
This is the other side of the story, as I've said before.
They have significant interest in the Gulf, right?
And therefore, less so than America's interests,
China wants stability for its own personal energy needs, but also because they want to
have more diplomatic ties or more leverage, more influence over Gulf States anyway.
During the war, Saudi Arabia asked China to press Iran to refrain from attacking the
kingdom. As Saudi officials said, did China actually stop Iran from attacking Saudi Arabia?
No. In 2023, China helped finalize the diplomatic opening between Iran and Saudi Arabia after
those countries that talked about further engagement for years. China is seen in Riyadh as a vested
party in relation to Saudi Arabia and Iran, the Saudi official said. Pakistan. Pakistan's
in a bond, which has hosted one round of US-Iran peace talks is also relying on China to help
push negotiations forward. On March 31st, China and Pakistan issued a five-point statement calling
for an immediate ceasefire, peace talks, and the protection of civilian sites and opening
of the trade of Hormuz and respect for the United Nations Charter.
On April 8th, Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif of Pakistan thanked five countries in a social media
post for their help in sealing the ceasefire deal. China was at the top of the list, of course it was.
China gave a public show of support for Iran that same week by joining Russia in vetoing a
UN resolution that would have allowed for multinational military action to force Iran to open
the strait. Behind the scenes, China told Iran it should show flexibility and agree to a ceasefire,
Iranian officials said. However, some analysts argue China's appetite for expanding its diplomatic
role in the Middle East is probably limited. Beijing's priorities are more practical, said
Ryan Haas, a former career diplomat and the White House national security official now at the Brookings
Institution. They want reliable access to energy inputs and secure markets for their exports. They
do not want to accept another region's security challenges as their own problems.
I mean, this is fair, pretty fair shake. Um, overall, I think I don't see anything too
offensive in the article. That's like totally ridiculous. Anyway, Trita also has some choice
words for Mark Carney. Remember when Carney said this in Davos, keep this paragraph in
mind when you read what he said today about Iran and the UAE and his silence when Iran
was being attacked.
We knew the story of the international rule-based order was partially false, that the strongest
would exempt themselves when convenient, that trade rules were enforced asymmetrically.
And we knew that international law applied with varying rigor, depending on the identity
of the accused or the victim.
Yeah.
Canada strongly condemns the unprovoked missile and drone attacks launched by Iran against
the United Arab Emirates.
We stand in solidarity with Mohammed bin Zayed and the people of the United Arab Emirates
and commend the efforts made to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure.
Canada reiterates his call for de-escalation and diplomacy in the region.
Canada is very interesting because on the one hand, what is this?
Mark Carney won a majority government last night and because you will remain in power
till 2029, you might as well use some of that time to watch the clip of his online speech
at UBC.
He tries to be American for some weird reason.
Okay, I'm not going to read, I'm not going to go through my speech again.
But, Mark Carney, I'll talk no action. Mark Carney, I'll talk no show. Okay.
Despite, same with obviously the European Union and the leadership in places like Germany.
Here is Germany's Chancellor Mertz continuing the demand. Iran must come to the negotiating
table. It must stop playing for time. It must no longer take the region and the entire
world hostage. Its military nuclear program must be ended completely and forever. And
there must be no further strikes against Israel and our partners in the region.
This comes after America threatened to pull troops or said are pulling troops from our
pulling troops from Germany, 5,000 NATO troops. And that was, of course, because Merz had
an honest moment where he said, Iran is humiliating the United States of America. Merz lekt aya.
Despite having remarkably little involvement in the issue one way or another, EU policies
keep giving these strange lectures and ultimatums seemingly just out of habit, says Murtaza
Hussein. It's not out of habit. They're doing this to try to get America to no
longer yell at them.
Carney's so funny. What is this? Oh, I know what this is. We'll discuss later. We are
an energy superpower, third largest oil producer, fourth largest natural gas,
largest hydro renewable base. We're committed to addressing climate change
while providing reliable, affordable energy to our citizens and partners.
In closing, we're here because of your invitation.
Again, thank you for that, but we're here because of the moral and security imperatives
of our cooperation in the Caucasus, in the Baltics, in Ukraine, across Europe, and also
because of the immense potential for our partnerships to build a better, more prosperous, sustainable
and just world for our citizens, and I'll close with this.
It's my strong personal view that as the international order will be rebuilt, but it will be rebuilt
out of Europe.
And so I'm very appreciative of that.
And as we'll discuss later, dude thinks Europe got any shit to say.
I don't even know how to respond to this.
The fucking is my strong person view the international order will be rebuilt, but it will be rebuilt
out of Europe.
Sure, bud. Yeah, definitely. New APAC email. They're scare shitless. I know. They're making
sure Zach doesn't become Prime Minister. Smear campaign starting to work. Check the graph.
Yeah, I saw that. I saw. We'll get to that in a second.
Let's get to Abdel El Said real quick. Two things I want to talk about with Abdel El
Said. In a fundraising email, APAC calls the views of Graham Platter and Abdel El Said
a direct threat to the U.S.-Israeli relationship. A contribution right now to defend Hailey Stevens
and student Susan Collins will send a clear message that we will not let extremists rewrite
the future of this relationship. Fantastic. Abdel, of course, responded and said, I'm
And I endorse this message. Okay. At this point, I feel like a pack is, is, has given
up on trying to be tactical or covert and are, are, uh, they don't realize that they
are a tremendous funding boon to candidates that they put in the crosshairs like this.
So, you know, great stuff overall. Obviously donate the Abdul if you haven't. It's, it's
an act of desperation, but they do have a lot of, they're still being covert. That's
why this is only an internal fundraising email. Yeah, I guess that's true too. But I mean,
out now, stop anti-Israel candidates, donate today. There is also another article that
was written by a stalker of mine that you guys are very familiar with, Dan Stalkman.
And he wrote an article for the free press, as a matter of fact, literally.
Abdul El Sayed and the decline of the Senate is the title of the article, yes.
The free press is so fucking desperate that they got Diddy Dan to write an article.
The only articles they've written is on Abdul El Sayed.
The article itself is, of course, unbelievably Islamophobic, as expected, from a weird psychopath
like Diddy Dan, Dan Stalkman.
I was also shocked that he's literate.
I didn't know that that was the case.
The article itself basically not so subtly implies that the Senate is declining because
there's a Muslim.
There is a fucking Muslim who's running for a Senate seat.
That's pretty much what it is, okay?
The decline of the Senate is an unbelievable thing to say about Abdul El Sayed because
Abdel El Sayed is a valedictorian or was a valedictorian at a university in Michigan,
a Rhodes Scholar with not one, but two doctorates, okay?
His contributions to public health in the state that he's currently running in a Senate
seat was rebuilding the health department for the state itself.
But the very fact that he's Muslim and an advocate for Palestinian rights and Palestinian
dignity implies that the Senate is falling apart.
Okay?
Yeah, the Senate, where John Fetterman works, the Senate has not fallen apart because John
Fetterman is a senator.
But the man with the pedigree that I just showed you is running for a seat in the Senate.
that's terrifying. There are already Muslims in the Senate, what's even his
point that even though Muslims are already in the Senate, one more is just too
many. No, I don't think there is a Muslim senator. Is there a Muslim? I don't
think there is a Muslim senator. No, he would be the first. You're confusing the
Senate with the House of Representatives.
Obama. Yeah, some of his contributions and the public health sector in the state of Michigan
was to cancel medical debt for 300,000 Michiganders. Remember that. So unless you mean Chuck Schumer,
the Palestinian.
Logs very important. What is this serious question? How electable do you really think
Mark Carney would be in the USA considering the Republican most of our local fair workers
have open to your opinion. I don't even know how to answer that question. Okay.
Yeah, those two doctors from Oxford and Columbia, he's a Rhodes scholar, right?
He has, I mean, he might be literally too smart for the Senate, especially in comparison to some
some of our other senators, right?
Anyway, we have a network of some of the most
unwashed and insane weirdos,
the fucking losers that are stalkers
who've spent a great deal of time and effort
trying to come after not only me, but also wonderful candidates that would help fight
the good fight and would advance the interests of their constituents.
But that is where we're at.
J.B. Pritzker, Josh Krauscher reports, did an interview with Politico in which he said,
there are a lot of people who don't like Nenial, but you shouldn't take it out on Israel's
democracy that elected him there are a lot of people who don't like Trump should we be tossed into
the Hague as a country because of Trump I will not be answering this question
should Trump be tossed in the Hague yes
what kind of question is that absolutely fuck yes
yes if you've done war crimes it doesn't matter if you're an American doing the war crimes you
You should be punished for it.
I want to live in a world devoid of war crimes, okay?
So that's my opinion on it.
This lady actually does the Israelis in English, I'm a victim of Israelis in Hebrew, I made
off Hitler meme in real life.
What is this?
We report an organized plan to send all Ghazans to another country.
Okay.
Okay.
Of course, the jacket comes off for the food.
What did you think?
All of Azatia is a personal building that will never be returned to the world
If it is a Loup, it will never be returned to them
On the way, there are of course, tricots that have been suppressed
If you want me to answer this in English, I would be more than happy to answer
Azatia, the people from Azatia, destroyed us all on the cover of the desert
not only the people that they heard physically, they heard everybody's heart, all the Jews all over the world.
And for this, I would send them as far as possible, one way ticket, never come back.
Thank you so much.
I mean, she didn't actually give a less fascist answer in English. Let's be real.
It was still a pretty fascist answer. It's just that she hammed up the victimhood narrative in English a little bit more. That's all it is.
She said they should burn in Hebrew. I mean, it was, yes, it was more, it was more Nazi-like
in Hebrew always. She didn't phrase the concentration camp in English. She said death camps in Hebrew.
My point was, even in English, even in the English setting, it was still kind of fucked up.
There needs to be a conversation about whether there's a perception of
unsafety or actual unsafety in Jewish communities. Out of this week,
do you think this is still a matter for debate?
Well, the full quote is that I said both are unacceptable. And anti-Semitism and
and Jewish safety is not some abstract concept for me.
In fact, in the last six weeks alone,
two people have actually been arrested
in relation to antisemitic actions towards me.
And yesterday, The Times newspaper
published a vile antisemitic cartoon,
which we've asked them to apologize for.
Now, I don't believe that we make Jewish safety
any better by escalating tensions.
I think it's really important we recognize
how scary it is at the moment for so many communities.
We saw three people stabbed this week on Wednesday,
on Muslim men and to Jewish men.
And I think it's important that we all work as leaders
to de-escalate tensions, to bring communities together,
recognize the work of interfaith groups
and also non-faith groups as well.
That is a nicely political answer,
but it's not the answer to the question I asked you.
You said that there needs to be a conversation
about whether there is a perception of unsafety or...
What the fuck?
Again, he's Jewish.
I genuinely thought, and I was mistaken on this, I will recognize it.
I will recognize it.
I thought, given that Zach Polanski is Jewish himself, that this line of attack would be
not as successful given the time frame that we're in, given the attitude from the broader
public on the issue of Israel and like all of the anti-Semitism allegations, like losing
its weight a little bit in the Western world especially, I truly thought that this line
of attack that was very successful against Corbin would not be so successful against
Zach Polanski, I was a little wrong.
Turns out non-Jews are very comfortable yelling at a Jewish man about being a bad
Jew for not being sufficiently supportive of the nation state of Israel.
Do you still think that is a matter for debate?
As I say.
Is it a matter for a conversation or do you accept that actually there's not a perception
there is actual unsafety?
Well, I think the conversation is rolling out right now.
I definitely think there's unsafety for Jewish people and I never said there wasn't.
I said both were unacceptable.
When I talk...
No, what you said is there needs to be a conversation.
I looked at your words, which suggests that you think that there's a choice and that perhaps
some people might be thinking that there's a problem, but there isn't really a problem.
So you're telling me this morning, that's not a question.
That's not in question.
You accept that there is actual unsafety and that's what's going to be tackled.
What I said was spot on, there are times when Jewish people, including myself, are actively
unsafe.
That's clearly very true, and it's always been true.
There's also times where we hear marches, Palestinian marches, that I as a Jewish person
walk on, where Jewish people say that makes them feel unsafe.
Now, I don't think that actually makes them unsafe, clearly, because I'm a Jewish person
who is on that march.
So I think it's about having a conversation about how do we ensure that Jewish people
are safe and Jewish people feel safe at times when they may perceive themselves to be unsafe.
Oh, that's interesting.
So these marches where many Jewish people,
frankly, most Jewish people that you or I would meet,
say that they feel it makes them unsafe.
Let me put a thought experiment to it.
Imagine you are talking to Shlomi Rand or Norman
Scheiner, two men who were stabbed in gold as green.
How do you persuade them that what happened to them
was somehow kind of in their imaginations. I mean, you got to be what the fuck, bro.
That is insane. That's not the argument, man. The question would be the question would be
like, first of all, the idea that like these stabbing victims have anything to do with
like fucking pro-passing margins is already bullshit. You have to tackle the the issue
at the root here, but he's taking it once the further and he's like claiming that Zach
You're saying that anti-Semitism is made up I
Really hope that I really hope that he doesn't he doesn't get hit with the fucking Corbin Ray where he's like too nice for his own good
Like in this situation you should probably be a little bit more aggressive and be like dog. Are you Jewish? I'm Jewish
I'm telling you, I've been victim of anti-Semitic hate crimes.
And obviously, Jewish safety is important for me, for my family, I'm Jewish, I don't
know if you know this, I'm Jewish, okay?
Guess what?
I also am firmly committed to the emancipation of Palestinians that have been victim to a
genocide.
These two views are not at odds with one another.
No matter how hard you guys try to slam a comfortable narrative that justifies mass state repression.
It's clear about this.
You can't have it both ways.
Either there is something real here or you're saying that some Jewish people are not making
it up but they're imagining something that is real that isn't real.
Trevor, that's an outrageous distortion of what I just said.
No, I'm kind of repeating what you just said, what you said earlier in the week and what
you've just said to me, actually.
If people are stabbed, then that is clearly unsafe.
It's beyond unsafe.
It's outrageous and it's horrific,
the attack that happened.
We should not and must not pit people
facing physical violence against people's freedom of speech
and ability to march in relation to a genocide in Palestine.
The person who is conflating anti-Semitism
for the Israeli government is Benjamin Netanyahu.
No, no, no, no, let's not get onto that.
I asked you about the feelings of the Jewish community
in this country.
I've had one of them.
I've had almost nothing to do
with what you just started to go on to.
And you seem still unsure.
No, you just don't like the actual issue
because it's not favorable to your position.
Oh my God, I'm so mad.
Oh my God, I'm so fucking mad.
I can't stand British media.
Oh my God.
Oh my God.
Oh my God.
Zach, you're Jewish.
Just fucking be like, I'm a Jew, you're not.
What the fuck are you talking about?
I feel like this is,
we need to simplify this shit, you know what I mean?
He should just lean into that.
He doesn't, it doesn't work.
Whether you believe Jews in Britain are unsafe or whether you think actually it's not as
bad as some people are making it out.
That's not what I said at all and that's not what I said last week.
I said there are people who are unsafe, Jewish people, and that's clearly true.
There are also people who feel like the marches are hate marches.
I'm saying as a Jewish person who marches with many Jewish people against the occupation
in Palestine, when people say that makes them feel unsafe, that's a distortion of what
we're marching.
Okay, so you would reject the McPherson Inquirer, Stephen Lawrence Inquiry definition of a hate
crime as a crime, an incident where either the victim or anybody else who happens to
be there perceives it to be crime motivated by hatred because there are thousands and
thousands of no no that's not the conversation the inquiry is going to happen and the investigation
should obviously continue we should figure out exactly what was the motivating factor
the problem here is disingenuously tying that back to the pro palestinian movement
Oh my god, the UK media. Oh my god. What a fucking unbearable bad faith. Pro suppression
of free speech narrative that they're developing here. Hello, fat fuck. Hello, our worded cock
fucking chat. Dude, you're fucking based. Ooh, edgy. Edgy. Ooh, we're going to cut ourselves
on the edge chat.
Jews in this city, London, who think that those marches that you are saying you don't
feel intimidated by, they think these are hate marches.
By the way, his argument is unironically Jewish exceptionalism.
That's crazy.
What's also insane is that Sky News literally made it seem like the guy only stabbed two
Jewish people.
They didn't even bring up the fact that there was a third victim here, because the third
victim was Muslim. I thought that the dude only stabbed two Jewish people. I didn't even know
that there was a third victim. Sky News straight up said two victims. They did not even talk about
about the third victim. They made it seem like the third victim does not exist.
But yes, the idea that Jewish people are scared of pro-Palestinian marches so they shouldn't
happen is a ridiculous conversation to have, doubly ridiculous, that you're talking to
a Jewish person who attends the fucking marches, alongside many other Jews who also participate
in these pro-Palestinian demonstrations. What the fuck are we having a conversation
about? Oh, Jews, you will are scared so you can't fucking exercise your first, no, they
don't have First Amendment. But you can't exercise free speech and free public demonstrations
against the fucking genocide. What kind of argument is this? It is unbelievably anti-Semitic
to make this claim that one, that all Jews are terrified of the free Palestine movement.
It's not only untrue, but it's also somewhat, kind of somewhat, it's pretty fucking anti-Semitic.
Oh, you can't be against genocide because Jews hate that Jews love genocide is the argument that you're presenting here. It's fucking crazy
But also
Even if that was the case which it's not but even if it was the case that like all Jews in the in the UK are
Pro-Israel and they can't stand
Free Palestine Marjela whatever who gives a fuck
Like that's a, that's an unbelievably stupid, if 100% of Jews, which is not the case obviously,
were against the propensity movement, or were against people saying what Israel did is a
genocide, which is, you know, the truth.
What would that, what kind of bearing would that have on the moral calculation here?
Would that change the situation at all?
No, Israel still would have committed a genocide and it would still be absolutely valid to protest
against it if you're anti-genocide.
This is not like a defensive shield that you could apply where you can just like take
people's rights away, you know what I mean?
So you're saying that the McPherson inquiry, the McPherson definition, which is what the
government stands behind and which police operate today, that's wrong.
Well, as a Jewish person, I march with many Jewish people on those marches.
Now, there are already laws to do.
But you're not all Jews.
I'm just saying that currently, the policy is...
But why is my Jewish identity being erased from this conversation?
No, I'm not erasing it.
I've so many people on those marches.
No, no, no.
Don't try that one on me.
What do you mean don't try that on me?
You're doing that.
You are doing that.
You keep doing that.
My point is that currently the policy is that if somebody believes that an incident is a
hate crime, whether they are a victim or not, it is recorded as such by the police.
It is regarded as such by the court.
What you are saying is because you don't think it's a hate crime, it shouldn't be.
If hate crimes are being committed on the marches, then those should be dealt with and
there's already laws for those.
As I said, on those marches, I've not seen hate crimes and I think it's an outrageous
slur on many, many people who are marching for peace.
The world is actually upset.
And others who think it is, what's wrong with that?
Those are not hate marches.
It's in their minds.
Well, I think it's not seen as-
Yes, you should say that.
I think you should say that.
Yes.
If there's an actual hate crime in a march, that's one thing.
But broadly, this kind of like overgeneralization that anti-genocide protests and anti-user
protests are actually a hate crime is, yes, delusional, it's hysterical, and people should
shut the fuck up because it also feeds back into the false conflation between Judaism
and Zionism.
It feeds back into the false conflation between Israel and Jews.
dual-loyalty tropes being reflected on in broad daylight in mainstream media being advanced.
This is an unbelievably dangerous narrative for British Jews.
Oh my god, what the fuck?
Evidence of them being hate marches, and I think, yes, that is a perception issue.
Okay. So you then want to erase their belief that they are subject to hate. That's their
perception is also their reality. Well, I think we need to deal in evidence and data. So where
there has been anti-Semitism, there's laws to deal with that and that should be dealt with.
If it's a job, you guys know my perspective on this
Zionism is a suppressor supremacist ideology
And it should be regarded as such because it is and
There's no
There's no difference between people being like well people who are pro-Israel think the anti-Israel marches are dangerous and scary and a hate crime
Are giving off the same exact energy of like a white nationalist think you know miscegenation is bad
And, you know, pro desegregation marches are actually really scary for them.
It's a hate crime against whites.
It's a hate crime against white Christians.
It's like, okay, well, sucks to suck, don't it?
General perception that I hate marches, and that's the world upside down.
These are peace marches that are marching to say, end the occupation.
Okay.
We could have a philosophical discussion about that, but clearly you don't take the view.
But many people who experience these marches take that's not what you're saying, I was
at a rally and hasten things a few days and someone holding a reform fine.
I'm trying to put to you the experience of many other people, actually rather many.
My experience is a majority of Jews in this city did a Nazi salute in my direction this
week.
This is not an abstract philosophical conversation for me.
I think it's important we deal with actual anti-Semitism and we don't pit that against
pro-Palestinian sentiment.
doesn't make Jewish people any safer.
You retweeted this message about the behavior
of a group of Meshfaan police officers
when they had probably just saved several lives,
including, by the way, the life of Esa Suleiman,
who's since been arrested and charged with attempted murder
because the armed police were on the way
and had he not been subdued, who knows what would have happened.
What on earth was going through your head
when you retweeted that?
I know you've apologized.
Oh my God.
Oh my God.
Oh my God, I would lose my fucking mind.
Oh my God, I'm losing my mind watching this from afar.
who the fuck are you bro who the fuck are you what was going on through your
mind oh my god I'm seething oh my god
wow wow what a fucking piece of shit this guy is oh my god how smug how
How entitled? God damn this motherfucker. Oh my God, he besties with Peter Mandelson. Of course Trevor Phillips. I have not cut off Mandelson despite Epstein links.
MCP response suspension of Trevor Phillips over allegations of Islamophobia. Trevor Phillips is actually suspended from UK labor for Islamophobia but rehabilitated by Kier Stammer. Oh my God.
Oh.
That's what he should bring up be like oh you think I've retweeted disqualifying well
I think being fucking continuing a relationship with Epstein affiliate Mandelson is disqualifying
and here you are sitting across from me saying condescending nonsense that actually erases
my Jewish identity.
Fuck!
I think you can both recognise the bravery of officers who run towards incidents that
most of us, including myself, would certainly want to run away from and find the appropriate
forum to say that no one, especially the police, should be above scrutiny. The reason why I've
apologised is I accept that wasn't the appropriate forum. As a member of the London Assembly,
a place I know you know well, the Police and Crime Committee would be an appropriate place,
or indeed a meeting with the commissioner,
which I'm pleased I've reached out and he's now agreed to.
I do also think, by the way,
open letters aren't an appropriate way
to do politics either in a local election,
but I accept all of that
and I'll be having that conversation with the commissioner.
But you chose X to do this.
And I'm just curious,
what prompted you to look at this message
and to repost it?
Repost it, you can say you didn't endorse it and so on,
But you made a choice to do this.
And I'm just curious, what thought process led you to do that?
Well, the first thing I did was recognize
that this was a horrific crime.
And I showed solidarity to the victims of their families.
I then thanked the emergency responders
for the brave work they did.
I found it all very traumatic, especially as a Jewish person.
And I also found a video that was circulating
online traumatic too.
I accept, though, that conversation about that video
needs to be had with the commissioner rather than on X.
What is this? Where's the sound by your promenade on my sphere? Has used pro gaming rhetoric. Shut the fuck up chatters. Come on
What is this I'm kind of public shaming or takedown I just
Is it not worth the cover UK politics? No, I really like Zach. I'm in the tank for Zach. I
Just I
Just can't fucking stand
Um, anyone around the world, anyone around the world that, uh, exhibits the, the bravery
to say the truth about what fucking Israel is doing gets punished endlessly by mainstream
media.
And obviously I feel a sense of kinship for those who do actually put there, uh, who do
actually put themselves out there.
I mean, it's the bare minimum.
It's true.
But even the bare minimum is quite difficult for many of these politicians to actually
openly admit and openly speak on.
So, yeah, of course, when I see someone who is an ally in this, who is an outskoken voice
in this, being unjustly maligned in this way, I immediately get defensive.
I want to talk about it.
I want to cover it.
I want to fucking yell about the dickhead that's like putting him through this unnecessary,
him through this unnecessary experience. Yeah, the elections are coming up and that's
probably the reason why they're doing this. I mean, not probably, I know that's the reason
why they're doing this. They're trying to undermine him because they're terrified of
the green, the growth of the green party. It's hemorrhaged. I mean, the labor movement
or the labor party has hemorrhaged support. Many of them have gone by the way the Greens.
What these guys not realize is that the Tories are also losing support to the reform party,
and their attacks are only going one way, because it seems like these guys would rather have reformed
than Green be in charge.
You made a mistake because you were traumatized.
Well, you generally apologise when you make mistakes for putting that in the wrong forum.
It should be something I take directly to the commissioner and accept that.
Were you trying to reframe this as a case of police brutality?
So we didn't have the debate that it's going to have to take place about this being a straightforward
case of anti-Semitism with no political def-
Oh my God!
He's Jewish!
What are you saying?
What a fucking not so subtle way to just be like, hey, you're a bad Jew.
Okay, that's what this is.
You're a bad Jew.
You don't support Israel.
I am not Jewish, but I know you're a bad Jew.
All my Jewish friends told me.
Mendelssohn told me.
Oh my God.
The worst is yet to come.
I think my heart will not be able to handle this.
Trevor Phillips is retweeting a race
to do with Zach from Waitrose
because you can't find anyone else
who agrees with the Zach Polansky interview.
It's still very hard then to understand why you felt you had to intervene with some random
tweet.
Well, let me just add one thing.
It's hard to understand it.
It's so miserable that Britain is not really a country that going by the general populace
is incredibly into far-right idiocy, but also anytime anything otherwise shows any potential
popularity, it is nuked into oblivion by the political class dead set on far-right idiocy.
These people spring into action to throttle anyone who says positive things with endless
horde media coverage, playing to the worst WhatsApp groups in the world, but for almost
20 years now, they have been entirely powerless, indeed seduced and begot by Nigel Farage.
Oh, the supporting Palestine list popular in Britain in the US. No. That's what's so
crazy about this, is that propensity sentiment is very popular in the UK. It's more popular
in the UK than it is in the United States, actually.
That's the reason why the UK has basically made it fucking illegal. It's just that everyone
and mainstream news is doing to Zach, what they've been trying to do to me here in America,
right?
Which is just gum up the works and put this anchor around your neck where you're like,
you have to withstand the most biased negative framing physically possible.
And it's crazy because like, at least I'm Muslim, right?
So I like, I expected, I just, I truly did not think they would be able to pull this
off on a Jewish man. The only Jew that's like a party leader, by the way, that's all the
crazy thing. Everyone else is not Jewish.
In any other way, given that your own party has some trouble with anti-Semitism, two of
your candidates have been arrested this week. Is it the case that you basically wanted this
not to be about anti-Semitism, but let's make it about the police.
I've already said no. It's also important to point out that a Muslim man was stabbed
as well as two Jewish men, and that seems to have not been in the news coverage. The
commissioner as well in this very studio accepted that this was an unusual use of police force
within this incident. Now, I think there's a conversation that he's had about...
I don't think he did accept it. It was an unusual use.
He said it was unusual. That was what he said in the interview.
the incident was unusual but I don't think it was an unusual use of force in the context.
He said the response was unusual and that's a compensation I want to have with the commissioner.
I've said that X isn't the appropriate form, I don't think the media is the appropriate form either.
Um, you've raised the the issue of Muslims. Let me put this to three quarters of the terrorist
threats we know come from Islamists according to the security service.
Oh, God. I forgot that the UK is like way more Islamophobic
than the United States of America too. I mean the United States is like pretty fucking
Islamophobic, but it is far more heinous in Europe than it is in America. I will admit.
And once again, I fucking forgot.
Fia Mugol, the founder of Tel Mar Mah, which is the government backed group, one shouldn't
hate against Muslims, says in the papers this morning, in the national papers this morning,
that politicians haven't spoken, including the Prime Minister, about what he calls the
elephant in the room that has Muslim anti-Semitism written across it. He goes on to say that
while the vast majority of Muslims are an asset to our country, unless we have a written
branch rejection of Muslim anti-Semitism, calls for commiserations with British Jews
I think it's the opposite of what we should be doing. I think blaming an entire community based on what one person is not blaming the entire community.
He is referring to Muslim antisemitism Islamism as a.
Oh my God.
Oh my fucking God.
Oh my god.
Antisemitism is a problem across the board.
There is not one fucking specific group that is responsible for more antisemitism than the
others.
As a matter of fact, if there probably was one statistically, it probably wouldn't be
Muslims unless you factor in pro-Palestinian movements as a part of this rise in antisemitism,
Which is untrue.
Yeah, so Muslim anti-semitism and Christian anti-semitism is okay.
Yes, of course Christian anti-semitism is okay.
It's the most...
It's the oldest tradition, my good sir.
But what do you mean?
If Christians can't call Jews Christ killers, what can we do nowadays?
Cheerio!
My good sir!
Of course Christian anti-semitism is his oldest time itself
What the fuck
The these guys obviously don't have any capacity to feel shame, but goddamn dude
This is unfucking bearable other people to call it and he says unless we recognize that called for
Commissations with British Jews are futile. He's not accusing a whole community. Do you agree with him?
I think what we need to do right now is de-escalate tensions. I think we need into faith work
I think we need to bring people together. That sounds like the opposite of that
Former head of the Equal Human Rights Commission wrote yesterday
They did this with labor
Labor anti-Semitism, they're doing the same thing, but now they're just doing it Muslim,
Muslimic style.
They kept saying over and over again, like, doesn't labor have an anti-Semitism problem?
Here is a guy from inside of the labor, you know, labor friends of Israel guy who is a
pedophile.
Well, later we found out that he was a pedophile saying that labor has a real anti-Semitism
problem, right?
And then they kept demanding Jeremy Corbyn address it.
Meanwhile, as double down news at the time showed, and shouts out to David Graver as
well, I still remember his words on this issue, rest in peace with David Graver, that antisemitism,
or the percentage of antisemitic incidents within the Labor Party structure was far lower
than the fucking Tories.
It turns out, lo and behold, the Tories were far more antisemitic, and yet the media constantly,
constantly leaned into labor anti-Semitism.
I will never forget when they kept saying Jeremy Corbyn is an anti-Semite, he's the
chief anti-Semite.
Meanwhile, the fucking Tories put up a statue of Nancy Astore, okay?
Nancy Astore literally said, famously, Hitler was right about the Jews, that's what she
said.
And the the Torah party at the time where there was unlimited wall-to-wall coverage of Jeremy Corbyn
Being an anti-Semite suspected as an anti-Semite. That's what the fucking Tories were busy doing and there was not a single fucking mention of that
Bro Europe went so wrong so long ago like it's done with the fuck on my ears hearing
There's just nothing that, it's just so frustrating to see this man,
Farage stating places that are like greens will be used for detention centers. What?
They called up, this is getting silly now. The former synagogue was, oh, I saw this,
I saw this this morning. Counter terror police are investigating an arson incident at a former
synagogue in East London. Yeah, former synagogue, current mosque. By the way,
I feel like this media cycle is designed to make me insane.
Police are investigating arson at a former synagogue. It's a site in Nelson's. Oh, former
synagogue. current mosque, former synagogue. Three people get stabbed. Two are Jewish.
is Muslim. Well, fuck the Muslim guy who got stabbed. Who gives a shit? Only two victims
there. The Muslim is not a person. This is Sky News for you. Okay. Mosque gets fire bombed.
Well, doesn't matter. It was a doesn't matter. It's currently a mosque. Former synagogue gets
firebomb. What the fuck? The Tower Hamlets police were called at 516 on Tuesday, the fifth
of May this morning by the London Fire Brigade to reports of a fire at the site of the former
of a synagogue. Officers were quickly on scene, minor damage caused to a set of gates and
to a lock at the front of the building, no reports of any persons injured. And initial
enquiries looking at close circuit television indicate the fire was quote started intentionally
at approximately 5.10, the incident being treated as arson. Counterterrorism policing
London are investigating, given the fact of the site being a former synagogue and the
nature of the incident, the Metropolitan Police going to say, and then finally, Commander
Helen Fanning.
What?
What are you, are they just admitting that they wouldn't give a shit if it's a mosque?
On accident, they're going to uncover Islamophobic hate crime because they thought they could,
they thought that this was a, this was a yet another anti-Semitic hate crime.
Is that what it is?
British police accidentally stop, accidentally investigate Islamophobic hate crime because
they thought it was an anti-Semitic hate crime is a funny title.
The amount of, God, the injustice, man, the injustice, it just is so unbelievably frustrating.
It's unbearable to experience.
It's unbearable to watch unfold.
It makes me so angry.
We've got a head of counterterrorism and policing, London, which is leading the investigation,
says this incident follows on from a number of arsons and attempted arsons targeting
Jewish Londoners in the northwest of the city, and we will be considering any potential
links as their investigation gets underway.
Detectives are working.
They need a guy like me in fucking British media.
There's gotta be, right?
I mean, come on.
Someone needs to get in there and no, not even like Owen Jones, I'm talking to someone
who will just get in there and be like, shut the fuck up.
You're a bitch.
Suck my fucking dick.
Someone needs to get up there and just be like, what the fuck are you talking about?
Someone needs to get in there and throw some goddamn elbows in the room.
Make some fucking breathing space for yourself.
Jesus Christ.
They'll be arrested. Oh, whatever. The British version of yourself is in jail. That's, uh-huh,
I guess. Fuck it. I'll be the version of myself in the UK, if necessary.
Hassan, I have a genuine question here. You've mentioned a couple of times that you usually
lean into is Jewish identity to defend against the bullshit from the interviewer, but I'm
curious why. Isn't that standpoint epistemology, which you're usually against, or are I misunderstanding
your POV? Yes, you're not misunderstanding my POV at all. Okay? I'm saying fight dirty.
Do you not understand? I'm saying like, fuck it, fight dirty.
If they're going to be phillosomatic, use the fact that you're Jewish to your advantage.
You know what I mean? Yes. They're going lowest fuck.
Under different circumstances, they'll be like, I don't care about your standpoint.
I don't care about standpoint epistemology. As a matter of fact, even in the process of describing
like the idea that, you know, the overwhelming majority of Jews are terrified of pro-passionate
marches. I said, I don't give a shit. Okay, I don't care. What the fuck do you mean?
First of all, you made that up. Okay. You made that up. And even if that was the case,
it still wouldn't fucking matter. What do you mean? Oh, I'm sorry. We can't say the truth about what
Israel is doing because it might offend people's sensibilities. You know what I find offensive?
the fact that the Royal Air Force was creating strike targets for the Israeli army that is
a genocidal army. That's what I think is offensive. That's what was going on with our fucking British
tax dollars at a time when there's an unprecedented energy crisis, at a time when the UK is suffering.
That's what Keir Starmer thought was an appropriate use of funds. I find that to be unbelievably
offensive. You know what else I find offensive? The idea that we here in the UK find ourselves
to be the bastion of liberalism, defenders of the Magna Carta. That's what the king said when he
went to the United States of America, delivered a speech in front of Congress, okay? And here we are
using some of our exhausted resources upon British pensioners who dare say that they support Palestine
action. That is offensive. That is unbearable. And the shame, if we had the capacity to feel
it, would be felt for generations. Oh my God. Where's the accent? I'm too mad to actually
give you a comical accent.
quickly to gather evidence, and I identify those responsible. I would urge anyone with information
to assist detectives or contact police. But like I say, the breaking news in the last few
moments from the Metropolitan Police that counterterrorism policing London are investigating
a further arson incident at a former synagogue. Oh my God, he said a former synagogue like eight
times is fucking ridiculous. The following, when members of the Muslim community commit violence
against Jewish people for simply being Jewish, there are no mosque vigils or prayers, no loud
child-halers condemning perpetrators to their shame and mine, Muslims in Britain appear
entirely alienated from the plight of Jews when attacked. This silence speaks volumes.
Do you understand her anger? She is a Muslim?
I think those are inflammatory comments. I think some of the work that I'm proudest
of when I see in London is when imams and rabbis stand together side by side and say
that attack on one is an attack on all. And together, Jewish and Muslim people will stand
and solidarity. I think that's the sort of leadership that we need right now, people
standing up and working together in unity, not reaping further division.
So the points of view of two prominent Muslims, from your point of view, are just inflammatory
because what, they're not your kind of Muslim?
They can be as prominent as they want. I can still disagree with them.
Yes. Yes. Also, you should just flip the script and be like, the overwhelming majority
Muslims disagree. If you're going to hit me with the overwhelming majority of Jews disagree with me,
a Jewish person, you're not a Muslim. You're actually an Islamophobe. So we both know,
you don't give a fuck what Muslim opinions are. You're just using these two as a fucking pawn,
which right off the jump is enough for me to assume that their perspective is worth nothing.
No, but you seem to be saying that somehow their views are not legitimate.
I think they're using it wrong.
You're engaging with them at all.
That's different to not legitimate.
What I'm saying is that I think people in positions of power and people with responsibility
right now have a responsibility to bring people together.
That is not language that I think sounds like bringing people together.
Even if it involves trying to tell the truth, what they say is the truth.
I think it's really important to tell the truth and the truth right now is we need
into faith work. We need to make sure that we're bringing people together. We need investment
in our communities, both faith and non-faith communities. I think that's what's important
right now. Rather than, I know you rejected earlier on when I said blaming an entire community
for one person's actions is not what those words are saying, but that's very much what
I'm hearing.
Well, we're going to have another conversation about perception and reality. They go out
of their way specifically to say that they don't accuse all Muslims and how could they,
they are Muslims themselves. But I just wonder whether this is a political situation for you
in which you can't recognise what they say because you're trying to appeal to that community.
I mean, again, I think it's an outrageous, anti-Semitism is unacceptable in the same way
that Islamophobia is unacceptable. I don't think we challenge anti-Semitism or Islamophobia or
any form of racism by pitting communities against each other. I think we challenge those things by
investing in our communities and bringing people together. All right, you are fighting elections
this week. Smart Money says that you're going to do very well as a party. Are you going to instruct
your councillors to reject coalition or cooperation with other parties specifically reform?
Well, the first thing to say is I'm not interested in smart money. I'm interested in votes. So
on Thursday, every single person who wants green councillors with only two vested interests
to protect people and protect the planet should go out there and vote green. We're
facing a toxic combination right now of high bills and low wages. We need to end ripoff Britain.
And one of the ways we do that is by electing more green councillors. Now, when those councillors
are elected, they are there to serve the communities, they're not there to serve me or the Green Party.
So I won't be telling anyone, you know, who they need to go into coalition with or not go into
coalition with. That's ultimately a matter between the councillors and their local community.
I would be very surprised though, and I would be bothered to see anyone going into coalition
with reform and I don't expect to see that happening. I want you to be bothered because
I think reform offer a politics that's divisive. I think that it's toxic and I think it's the
opposite of everything that the Green Party represents and I can't imagine any council
or council wanting to work with a reform party, at the same time it's an important principle
that we are not a top-down party, it's up to those councils to make their decisions.
But as I say, I can't imagine any scenario where you'd see the Green Party and reform working
together. Let's talk a little bit if we may before we end about what kind of party you are.
People used to think of the Green Party as conservationists and mocked greens for being,
you know, knit your own yoghurt and so on. Nobody's going to say that these days.
still like to net some yogurt. Okay, fair enough. I'll come around for that. What's the first thing
you've been asked your current list to do on Monday? Are you... You should check the
reactors though. A lot of these anti-zax mirrors on, you can see a lot of people are on zax side.
The dislikes on this video in particular are the majority. Yeah, of course, I suspect they...
Oh, oh, they disabled the comments. Oh, how interesting. I wonder why they disabled the
comments perhaps because they were getting, they were getting ass blasted by everyone
who is fucking sane. God, these people are such disgusting cowards, dude. Oh my God.
And the fact that he is, he's been punished by the labor for being Islamophobic and on
on top of that, maintaining his relationship with Mendelssohn, even after everything came
out, is a cherry on the top, okay?
Holy fuck, Brock has to criticize those who deserted his longtime friends, saying he knew
about the pier's weaknesses.
His weaknesses, the paedophilia, oh, why could a little bit of paedophilia get in between?
new friends, two long life long friends. Oh! Oh! Nostedly!
I'm just so sick of ignorant media, Islamophobes, and senior positions of the UK, US media,
viciously going after anyone that dares stand up against the slaughter and ethicalism of
the Palestinian people. Trevor Phillips and Notorious Egos has benefit from the Labour
Party for Islamophobia. And you get the feeling watching this astonishingly
rude and sneery interview with Zach Polanski, virtually the only senior British politician
to show any sympathy for Gauzans, that Phillips frankly wouldn't lose a wink of sleep if
every policy was a race from the face of the earth he certainly can't see anything
positive about protesting their genocide
which is the question how and why did someone with such a record of toxic
divisiveness
ever get offered a prime time show in the first place
it is for that reason that they got
a prime time show
damn dude it is it's actually worse than i remember i
I always forget how fucking bad British media is,
because like, you know, I'm so used to just like smears
from American media.
I'm so used to like being in the American media space.
It actually blows my mind how much worse it can get.
Like this guy is basically like Randy Fine, you know what?
I mean, which I guess is not exactly great
because I'm comparing him to an American congressperson.
You got brainwashed by the LBC podcast?
Yeah, well, it's not even the LBC podcast,
it's the LBC radio shows callers
who are, you know, unfathomably based.
Every time they speak,
they're like fucking Maoist Third Worldists, apparently.
Yeah, I'm calling in from East Lincoln.
Let me tell you, the Iranians ever
ought to fucking defend themselves, yeah.
it's just the fucking collars yeah bush every time I see every time I see
already in rockets I say bush
Trust me, only 5% of callers are based.
turn to the traditional green issues. Are you going to, for example, ask them to ensure
they're not spending any money on anything that would benefit Israel?
Well, the first thing to do is make sure we're protecting people's public services. As I
said, people are really struggling right now. As Hannah Spencer, the MP for Gorton and
Denton, where we took on the billionaire donors and the Green Party won, the day she
won, she said, working hard used to get you something. And now it doesn't get you the
the holiday, it doesn't get you what you feel like you deserve.
And I think it's so important that green councillors on day one
are making sure they're protecting people's public services,
actually representing the communities,
and changing politics so people can believe and trust again.
Far too many people feel like politicians
are so distant from them, as opposed to out there
batting for them every single day.
That's so interesting, because in that answer,
no reference to hedgerows, small animals,
even sewage in the water.
Well, they're all part of the public services.
Has the green become more carbonistic now
than conservationists?
Well, inequality affects everything.
And ultimately, the climate crisis
is a crisis of inequality, because corporations
who destroy our environment are also
destroying our democracy and our communities too.
And so the Green Party is ultimately
there to make sure that we protect our planet
and our environment.
And it's there to make sure we tackle inequality.
The 50 wealthiest families in this country
are more wealth than 34 million people.
That's unsustainable. The government say there's no money left, but there's plenty of money.
It needs to be in our communities, both for the environment and for the people we seek to serve.
Green Party Leader Defense Proposal marches after Golden-Golders-Green attacks.
The anti-Semitic attack in Golden-Green was not only terrifying.
Read the comments in this. Planning on turning the comments off on this one too, Skye. Who
was the third victim? Who was the third victim? Put Britain first, not Israel. Kudos to Stephen
Kapo's.
Hora, what the Israeli government is doing to the Palestinian people has nothing to do
with anti-Semitism. Palestine marchers having nothing to do with the attack. Remember, Starmer
has taken donations from Israel directly. Yeah, I just don't think people, I can't get a good
enough assessment, a good enough read on the British public overall. But I suspect if it's
anything like the American public. All of these like hideous smears are probably not
going to work.
New Trump update. Trump, based on the request of Pakistan and other countries, the tremendous
military success that we have had during the campaign against the country of Iran. And
additionally, the fact that great progress has been made toward a complete and final
agreement with the representatives of Iran. We have mutually agreed that while the blockade
will remain in full force and effect. Project Freedom, the movement of ships through the
should of Hormose will be paused for a short period of time.
That's awesome. Yeah, it is Tuesday. Taco Tuesday, after all.
I see we've now moved on to the Guardian legitimizes this totally fake thing.
Part of the anti-Semitism meta scandal, all smoke and no fire.
So and so must denounce this or that person for refusing to denounce some
other obscure person on the internet commenter. Hell yes.
The only Jewish person to lead a major British party is secretly anti-Semitic
for refusing to denounce this or that comment from Joe or Bob or Susan. Hell yes.
Keep it coming. Keep clouting the media space with smoke and more smoke and
scandals about entirely made up scandals. If you're wondering, yes,
A Jewish man questioning the level of force used by officers to tackle the Golden Gears,
a Golders green suspect, is used as evidence of anti-Semitism in the piece.
It's awesome how words have no meaning now.
Oh, I hate this.
I hate this so much.
Oh, there's so much injustice in this world. It's crazy. There's so much unfettered hypocrisy, too.
Oh
Do virtual appearances on Novaro a blastani
Yeah, I might I mean I'm gonna be in the UK physically it started a fresh debate and the highest political levels
About policing protest and the safety of British Jews
Four days later, we've come to go to the screen to speak to Jewish people about how safe they feel.
The authorities and the police and the government have to take care of the underlying cause of this antisemitism.
Yeah, these guys would be like, oh, two Jewish people and a Muslim guy got stabbed.
We should stop the pro-Palestine marchers.
I mean, that kind of gives the game away, you know?
Like, you're not taking this shit seriously at all.
at all. What the fuck do you mean? The, the first, the first thing that comes up in your
mind is like, Oh, we got to stop the pro-Palestinian marches. That's crazy. Yeah. Badanock, the
conservative leader, uh, can be bad. And I said, she supports a moratorium on pro-Palestinian
marches, but not for the March led by far right activist Tommy Robbins.
And later this month, these marches, would you consider taking similar action against
the March that's planned for the same day as the pro-Palestinian March made the 16th,
rally being organised by Stephen Yaxley, Lenin, Tommy Robinson, the convicted far-right activist.
Would you consider burning that too? Is he creating a climate of intimidation and violence that is
resulting in two people murdered in Heaton Park, two people nearly murdered in Goldersgreen? I'm
not saying that we shouldn't have a right to protest. There is something specific that is
happening at these marches that is different from the sorts of protests we've seen previously.
Let's, you know, people are not protesting about domestic issues, they're protesting
about international issues.
It's cost.
Why is he a convicted felon?
Perhaps he's incited so much hatred that it's become a criminal issue in the past.
The idea that Stephen Yaxley-Lenin, also known as Tommy Robinson, is not actually doing rallies
specifically hate rallies, because the pro-Palestine movement is not directed towards Jews. It's
not an anti-Jewish movement. Tommy Robinson's rallies are anti-Islam, anti-Muslim, anti-refugee.
Okay? So on the one hand, they claim falsely that the pro-Palestinian rallies are actually
directed towards Jews, which is already bullshit and therefore must stop, but also on the other
hand. They don't even do a both sides thing here where they just go, no, the wrong side,
the rallies that are fomenting hatred towards refugees, towards Muslims, towards immigrants.
Those rallies must continue. What the fuck?
To people nearly murdered in, in Goldersgreen. I'm not saying that we shouldn't have a right
to protest. There is something specific that is happening at these marches that is different
from the sorts of protests we've seen previously. Let's, you know, people are not protesting
about domestic issues. They're protesting about international issues. It's costing us
a fortune. It's resulting in the normalization of violence towards a minority group. I think
that we need to do what we can. But some people might feel, and some people did feel,
at that last big march called Unite the Kingdom. Many people there were protesting perfectly.
Imagine writing for Tommy Robbins as a black woman being against the liberation movement,
but it's for a movement that will happily thin out, snap black people out of existence,
given the chance of little chickens for KFC moment. Yeah, I mean, she's the
Tory leader, so of course she has to defend the racist. Obviously her job
requires her to defend racism in the country. That's like why she's in that
position. Please, perfectly peacefully. Some people did look at that mark and
feel intimidated. Some people did look at that and think, I don't want to see that.
They were concerned at that time and there were arrests and people were
charge with racially aggravated offences at that particular march.
Right. This is exactly what I'm talking about. You haven't been able to say who that was
targeted against. I am saying that there is something very specific happening to Jewish
communities. Their primary schools have security guards outside them. I go to Jewish primary
schools. These are little children that are worried about being hurt and attacked. Gail's
bakery and a bakery being graffitied Jewish businesses are being smashed up. I'm not
saying that the United Kingdom march is perfect. I'm saying that something specific is happening here
and we need to look at it. We keep doing this what-about tree every time.
What about tree? It's not even what aboutism. You're being asked a direct question about your
do you have a blanket ban on what you perceive as hate marches and you clearly are like no I don't
Actually, I just only care about marches that I perceive to be anti-semitic
This is not what about is them I
Don't know what to say it. This is
Unfuckin believable dude. They are they're so open about this what I also don't understand is like how is this not?
They're also trying to make calling out the third victim into a conspiracy theory
Yeah, Greens deputy leader shared conspiracy theory over golders green attack
Rachel Mirward shares posted says third victim from the day who was Muslim erased from the news to suit weaponized narrative
It's literally what happened
Do you got press for this again and their marches, but when it was put to you the other
day that on the same time as a very big pro-Palestinian marches to you, there's one by the way, the
reversal should take place. They should ban Tommy Robinson's marches, which have literally
led to hate crimes and not the pro-Palestinian marches, which are in my opinion, it's a
hate crime to ban the propensity marches, the hate crime against those who are trying to stop a genocide
from taking place. The UK is literally upside down world, man.
Robinson, who after all is overtly anti-Muslim, he's a man with multiple criminal convictions,
you said you wouldn't ban that. Why allow him to march and not people who want to
protest about the plight of people in Gaza? So first of all this is not a
defense at all of Tommy Robinson. I don't endorse anything he does but they
are different. What we have seen with the marches that have been going on for
three years around Palestine is sustained every week marching in front of
synagogues, people who are visibly Jewish, harassed and abused. The Tommy
Robinson marches often turn into violence. Other groups turn up. They get into a squabble
police office. Oh, other groups turn up. Oh, the pro-Palestinian movement is, is visibly
targeting or is directly targeting Jewish areas and visibly Jewish people. It's the
pro-Palestinian movement is like doing this. But when Tommy Robinson is instigating a hate
rally, putting together a directly named hate rally, it's not like these guys have
any, like there's no ambiguity about the goals of a Tommy Robinson rally, by the way, they just
openly say it. But in that, in that instance, there's all the side groups that come in.
That's what I heard. But at the end of the day, we cannot avoid the fact that two Jewish people
were killed in Heaton Park. Two Jewish people nearly killed. And a Muslim person that was
also stabbed in the same golders gear, however you fucking say it, the stabbing incident.
Golden's green attack last week. Just luck that Sean and the police got there on time
That is very different. That's what people are anxious about. They want this new mom. Yeah, by the way Tommy Robinson
They can't ban him from marching because he's an Israeli asset
He is an agent for both the United Arab Emirates and also Israel. This is 100% by the way, okay?
Perhaps that's the reason why they can't fucking do anything about it. God
I didn't realize the UK was this cocked Israel, bro. It is worse than America somehow. How is that possible watch?
The organizers claim is going nowhere near as it is part. It's part of the normalization of these attitudes
So if Muslim said to you, well, hold on we do feel threatened by Tommy Rodin
So we do get threatened by the use of Christian iconography to try and say somehow this is a Christian country
New York they made Israel come on man. I know but
But there's been a dramatic role reversal, it seems. Yeah, I don't know which one is
more cooked. Is it Germany? Is it the UK? Or is it the United States of America? I feel
like the US is pretty cooked on a policy, on the, on the policy side, but at least like
there's tremendous pushback, you know, like, and, and it's crazy because like even in Germany
or even in the UK, they have to do higher level of enforcement on pro-Palestinian speech.
And because they don't have the First Amendment, because they don't have the First Amendment,
they can get away with doing that kind of thing. They can like prescribe certain organizations
as terror organizations and they, you know, like they do with Palestine Action. And even,
And in spite of all of that, there is a higher level of disapproval for Israel in, especially
the UK than the United States of America.
Well, welcome here as Muslims, and of course, there are multiple attacks on Muslims around
the country.
You say, well, it's not at that level yet.
No, it's not even the same.
Criticism of religion is allowed in this country.
We mustn't mix the two things.
I am talking about the attacks on Jesus, not the faith that's being attacked.
It's the people.
And I do have to ask.
Yeah, right. Yeah, right. First of all, first of all, I definitely don't believe that because
you're literally criticizing the pro-Palestinian rallies, which has nothing to do with Judaism
to begin with. Can you imagine if the pro-Palestinian rallies were also like, well, we're just criticizing
Judaism. Oh my God. Oh my God. Then you would actually have a good reason to fucking talk
about anti-Semitism. Oh my lord, if the pro-Palestinian movement did what Tommy Robinson is doing
to Muslims, but instead the Jews, then you would understand whether or not these are
hate rallies or not, okay? Because then it would be, because Tommy Robinson is a, is
a hate monger and his rallies are hate rallies.
Why is it that whenever we're talking about Jewish hatred, we always have a, what about,
about when something happens to black people when they're atrocities that no
one does the water battery when something does happen to Muslims oh my gosh
she's using she's using her blackness to to fucking suppress a pro liberation
movement while simultaneously defend an anti-black protest an anti-refugee
anti-migrant protest. What the fuck? We don't say what about anti-Semitism. Why do we have this
double standard that whenever there's an issue with anti-Semitism and Jews being attacked,
we have to broaden it out all the time?
I mean, she's got no motion anyway, but it's still, you know, annoying to see it happen.
Lawyer defending Israel, the international courts as Owen Jones, that the economist is pro Hamas.
Look, you made it completely outrageous. I'm part of the Hamas propaganda machine. There's
absolutely no basis or evidence for that. And if we're going to say that anyone who says
that huge numbers of people have been murdered, exterminated, killed, whatever you want to say,
by the Israeli state, the economist, the economist backed Israel's assault on Gaza.
they did their own detailed estimate of the number of people killed in Gaza and they're
up a limit. And these are out of date. This was last a year ago now, with 110,000 people.
If we are to believe my esteemed guest, the Economist magazine is now part of the Hamas
propaganda machine. As regards the-
I think, I think we should normalize calling this hysterical. Okay. Like I think you should
be able to laugh in the face of people like this. Maybe I'm, maybe I'm crazy for this,
but like if you can just like, if you feel no shame whatsoever, and you can sincerely
sit there and be like, yes, the economist is a part of the pro-Hamas propaganda machine.
You deserve to be laughed at.
Well, do you know what?
I rest my case your honor.
Carry on arguing that the likes of the economists are part of the Hamas propaganda machine because
all you are doing is discrediting your argument.
You mentioned, for example, about these academics like Omar Bartolff, the dean's professor of
Holocaust and genocide studies at one of the most prestigious universities on the face of the earth.
He dedicates his life every single day of his life studying genocide. He's one of the most
pre-eminent scholars of the Holocaust. He knows this subject in a way you, a spokesperson for a
pro-Israel lobbying organization, does not. And I'm afraid to think you can say by the way,
If you can say, by the way, I disagree with him, I don't think they're right, but you
are going to have to stretch everyone's credulity to say that Israeli scholars of genocide who
dedicate their lives to studying genocide are talking total arrant nonsense.
The truth is, Natasha, Israel has committed a live stream genocide.
It has butchered vast numbers of people in front of the whole world.
of just proposed setting up concentration camps for migrants and the Labour Party is
currently focusing on trying to smear Zak Polanski, the only Jewish leader in the 8th
semifinal. Tells you all what you need to know. Oh my God, yeah, I heard the reform wants
to put up concentration camps in like neighborhoods that voted green.
Which part of?
In the aftermath of the attack, Zak Polanski, the leader of the Green Party, shared a post
criticizing the police response. He spoke to Sky's Trevor Phillips about that.
I think you can both recognise the bravery of officers who run towards incidents that
most of us, including myself, would certainly want to run away from and find the appropriate
forum to say that no one, especially the police, should be above scrutiny. The reason why
I've apologised is I accept that wasn't an appropriate forum.
Labour condemned the initial post by Polanski.
I thought it was disgusting what he did and absolutely abhorrent. I think it demonstrates
that the man is not fit to lead a political party.
had a similar reaction here. What his behavior is doing, I'm talking about his behavior,
he's potentially undermining the confidence of police in incredibly difficult circumstances.
The attacks renewed focus on pro-Palestine marches, with the Prime Minister saying some
of them should. We are watching the death of identity politics
in real time. Thank fucking God, rise above too. It's not working, I don't think. I mean,
I don't know.
Good on you for spending time on this.
It's on a fascism as an international movement.
The left wing solidarity needs to be just as international.
It's always been.
And I've always maintained that position.
That's why I also do work with an interview
and collaborate with socialists,
communists all around the world, as you guys know.
Of course, of course, the working class movement,
the socialist movement,
communist movement is an international movement. It always has been, and will continue to be.
Perhaps be restricted. And Ruth Polanski, Vierman will oppose us.
We should not and must not pit people facing physical violence against people's freedom
of speech and ability to march in relation to a genocide in Palestine. I said there are people
who are unsafe Jewish people and that's clearly true. There are also people who feel like the
The marches are hate marches. I'm saying as a Jewish person try to interview Zach. I have already Zach has interviewed me and
Not only that but also I'll be doing something when I go to the UK with him who marches with many Jewish people
Okay, against the occupation in Palestine when people say that makes them feel unsafe
That's a distortion of what the marches do you see where he's coming from turn to that that I've gone these marches
I'm Jewish. I feel safe. He's a useful kid
Dude, fuck off dude, fuck off. Oh my god shut up Jesus Christ
Dude anyone anyone that claims that an anti genocide anti fascist movement is hurting their feelings can just shut the fuck up
Okay, they should
Yeah, the murders.
Proposal marches are hate marches, yeah, sure.
The knife things, the bombing of ambulances, these things, you know, it's talking to me,
eat it, to the marches now.
So the boy is a Jew, but when he's walking down the road on these marches, is he wearing
I mean, this guy isn't doing that either, right? The idea that like, uh, Jews are always
wearing their KEPA or, or, uh, anything else is, is fucking ridiculous. Like, what are
you talking about? Plus there's also plenty of Orthodox Jews who are anti-Zionists as
well, but also in the UK too. And those guys are very prominent at the propensity rallies.
ironically enough are they more Jewish than the average Jew because they wear
the the Orthodox gear the Orthodox garb god damn dude I know the argument that
he's trying to present is like oh people don't know he's Jewish he's literally
the most prominent Jewish person in fucking British politics right now
everyone knows he's Jewish what the fuck are you talking about
isn't what he just said anti-semitic I mean he's he's dancing around the the
issue of calling him a bad Jew without openly saying it
there are literal Holocaust survivors that are at these fucking rallies man
these guys are disgusting
Oh
Yeah, they're they're accusing him of not being Jewish enough
They are they are trying to take away his Jewish identity because they're they just think that to be Jewish is to to be pro-Israel
That's what the argument is
Wearing a tally saying I'm a jews you wear it hold ins ready flag or is he going as a pro-palestinian?
Yeah, why would he fucking hold an Israeli flag at the pro-Palestinian rally?
God this kind of shit man there it is
Yeah, you're only Jewish if you're pro-Israel and that's the argument right disgusting. I think he doesn't feel this is unbelievably
This is this is so
insanely hateful
intimidated because he's not going as a shoot.
One of those people who does go to those marches as a Jew is Stephen Kappos,
who as a child survived the Holocaust.
He's in another corner of North London in a Palestinian cafe that he suggested.
They're not threatening to Jews.
We are a fucking goat, dude.
Our group of Holocaust survivors and descendants who stand on the side
with placards proclaiming who we are,
we get the most warm, enthusiastic response from the marchers.
And they are happy family events, nothing to do with hatred at all.
And it is a slur, a political defaming claim that they are in any way anti-Semitic.
Few in the community here in Golden's Green would agree with Kappos.
This is a fiercely felt and fiercely fought debate
No wonder given what is at stake?
Antisemitism and the safety of Jewish people Tom Cheshire Sky News cold as green
Zach Plansky is the only party leader of Jewish and he's being lectured on semi-ism by the media by Kissed armor
Kissed armor called him disgraceful the other day. I think he said he's God
Okay, I'm done. I'm done. I can't I can't do this is like it's it's
It's actually destroying my brain. I hate this shit picture this
It's May the 14th is America falling out of love with Israel. Yeah, let's talk about some good shit
Phillip profit on the greens in this moment. I think it's important
Phillip profit is right on this though. I know it feels like darkness closing in fascism coming
If not here reform announcing their plant constitution camps labor criminalized compositions genocide the Green Party are a small beam of light and the establishment desperately
Wanted extinguished
Don't let them I I agree
100% are you gonna cover Honduras gate wait what what's Honduras gate?
See why I is a British dude concentrate on American politics
Curtis rebels did oh I
God
Yeah, I saw this before please don't make me fucking respond to this dickhead not Matt petty. I like Matthew petty
The the other one he fucking he is such an irrelevant loser. It's fine
All right, what I don't know who this Joe Hut top guy is
But he he also went to Cuba
To be today come shit by decades sanctions economic challenges limited research fuel shoulders slow internet power outers a part of daily life for millions
Document takes you inside of Havana
I've seen the shows of Cuban people shillie heart breaking
and it's empty there's no car to sell completely empty is it the closest damn we got 2.7 million
views he documentary mugged you I mean hey anything that gets the word out you know anything
gets a word out is great. Are you covering that German whale? What's the German whale?
I don't understand. What are you talking about?
Timmy? Give me some context. I don't know what the fuck this is.
Who's the German whale? What?
Experts, rescue of Timmy,
the whale and all around Catashiv after Trager failure. Marine Express
criticized 1.5 million privately funded operation
as humpback's fate remains unknown after release into the Baltic.
What is this? Timmy after one of the sandbags was shandown. Remain unknown
three days after it was transported.
Was it a whale that was trying to fucking kill itself? Is that what it is a?
Well got hit by a jet skier in BC today or yesterday. Not sure if that's what you're talking about. No
I
Don't know what the story is. I don't care about this. I'm sorry
Let's let's go to some good news fuck it. All right y'all this is crazy
We got to talk about this so uh, okay Ben Shapiro's views plummet 85% my dark my dark woke king
Brigadier General, Rear Admiral, Kyle Mulaforkin-Kolinsky, covering the plummeting of Daily Wire,
the end of Daily Wire.
Please cover New School banning Hillel, new student in Tafada.
Oh, the new school just sent an angry email to a student's body saying that despite the
vote of the Student Senate, Hillel will still get funding.
The administration criticized the Senate for trying to hold students responsible for the
acts of governments.
in this case the students are literally funded to go to Israel and play support
role for the IDF. Yeah, yes I've been I've been informed on this like I was
I was following on the story here it is represented Dan Goldman of course unsurprisingly
criticizes the decision. The new school rejects its Student Senate dismissal of
Hillel, claiming that the Student Senate does not have the authority. The new
school's University Student Senate does not have the authority to determine the
recognition, funding, eligibility, or official status of registered student
organizations. The authority rests with the University administration and is
exercised through established institutional processes applied consistently
and equitably across all student organizations. Our Hillel chapter remains,
means, as it always has been, in good standing, eligible for running and supporting Jewish
life at the new school.
The administration is taking immediate steps to address the USS's actions and ensure it
acts within its actual purview now and going forward.
The new school was founded on a rejection of violence, hatred, and discrimination towards
any individual group, except from Palestinians and Arabs and Muslims in general, and a commitment
to understanding, learning, and open dialogue.
values apply to every member of our community without exception.
Dan Goldman, who is going to be unseated by Brad Lander, says a student
organization at American University designed to support and include a group
of students has nothing to do with Israeli government's policy decisions.
Ryan Grimm responds shockingly dishonest. This chapter was funding students to
play a support role for the Golanai Brigade which massacred 15 paramedics
and buried them in the sand along with their ambulances to cover up a war crime.
And now still is funding it. So yeah, no, they are directly supporting not only the the Israeli state, the Israeli government, the Israeli military that's like doing war crimes, but specifically the brigade that's doing all the worst versions of said war crimes, some of the most publicized war crimes.
If I had a nickel for every small bean student organization, liberal Zionist said was being
unfairly attacked and then after five seconds of research learned that the student organization
in question is providing material support to the 108th genocide brigade, I'd have a
lot of nickels.
Either Israel is a state and a political entity with missiles and nuclear weapons and F-22s
or it's an abstract warm and fuzzing feeling and cultural ideal, it cannot be both.
I'm going to need everyone to grow up and stop rounding down to the most disingenuous
sectarian and small beings description of things and events political entities with
militaries and tanks and a six and six for your death counts are not a protected
class Israel Israel small nation size of New Jersey Adam Johnson ah you are
great anti-Semitic you are anti-Semitic no
Yeah, so that's what the new school is doing, protecting the Hillel, regardless of the fact
that the Hillel was straight up, offering materials to a terrorist group.
Okay, I'm done with British news, I'm sorry, I'm checking out of that.
I can't see it. I can't cover this. I don't want to see it anymore. I'm done looking at
it. Oh, speaking of which, there's also more information about unlimited anti-Semitism
in New York City. That's right. The mayor, Zohran Kwame Mamdani. Today, there is going
to be another land fair, a settler fair, that is supposed to take place in New York City
at yet another synagogue, okay?
Now, Zarmamdani has criticized these settler fairs in the past.
There's an intercept reporter, Noah Hurowitz, who got the pamphlet for the Israel Real Estate
sale event at Park East synagogue.
Inside, I saw at least one table advertising properties in the West Bank, including Kfar
El-Dod and Karnai Shomron.
So we'll get to that in a second.
event promoting aliyah in real estate in israel at park east synagogue protest
gathered on the intersection of 68th and lexington chanting in the father
illusion there's only one solution from the river to the sea pass on the free and
we don't want to state we want 48 from Hannah Führer
It's never gonna happen.
It's never gonna happen.
Yeah, anyway, there's also...
So here's the event.
This evening in Manhattan, the great Israeli real estate event will be advertising land
available for sale in Gush Etzion, a cluster of illegal West Bank settlements, while also
making tax-legal and banking services available for those who want to become settlers, according
to the events publicly listed information.
Despite the commercial and internationally illegal nature of the event, the UN considers
Gush Etzion to be an illegal settlement.
It is being hosted at a religious institution, Park East Synagogue, on the Upper East Side.
Previous events have drawn protesters and counter-protestors, leading the charge of anti-Semism level
the process for devastating nearest synagogue. The protesters have countered that it is inappropriate
to use a religious institution to shield such a contentious practice, not a contentious practice,
but a morally repugnant one and also an outright illegal one. In the wake of previous protests,
the New York City Council, the veto-proof majority in March passed legislation restricting such
demonstrations.
Mammdani spokesperson Sam Raskin told the drop-site news,
�Mayor Mammdani is deeply opposed to the real estate expo this evening that includes
the promotion of the sale of land in settlements under the occupied West Bank.
The settlements are illegal under international law and deeply tied to the ongoing displacement
of Palestinians.
Our administration has also been clear that we are committed to ensuring safe entry and
exit from any house of worship and that such access never be in question, while all protesters
are able to exercise their first amendment rights.
Yeah.
So, uh, you know, he didn't, uh, condemn the protesters, so that's good.
Like he did last time.
Again, I think it should be illegal to do this.
I think it's, uh, I don't know what else to say, I think you should arrest the people who are, I think you should utilize the NYPD, it's not gonna happen.
But in a just world, in a just world, the mayor would use his standing military, the NYPD, to arrest the people that are making these illegal stolen land sales.
Of course, never gonna happen with Tish as the NYPD Commissioner.
I don't know. I have no idea why they do it in synagogues. I suspect it's a double bind,
because they get the additional protection of this being a house of worship. The inability
to name what a group is doing today while renting space from Park East while doing it while going
into detail about the chance heard last year is pathetic. Oh, Assemblyman Alex Boris and
Councilman Virginia Maloney on planned protest and counter-rally outside of Park East synagogue
said this naturally conjures painful memories of when people have been harassed while entering
houses of worship. Oh no. Like, we know that they don't just do random fucking, uh, random fucking
protests outside of random synagogues, okay? This is not a random thing. This is not a
random incident. Protests happen outside of synagogues while they're doing illegal land
sales, okay? Illegal.
Yeah, if Park East synagogue and Michael Lash are also, you know, also had a statement
Boris did too. Remember, this is New York 12. Kam Kasky was supposed to be on this,
on this ballot, but he dropped out. Unfortunately, and all of the remaining candidates for New
New York 12 are two varying degrees annoying on this issue to outright morally repugnant,
you know? It's annoying to morally repugnant. It's a real shame because even Alex Boris,
who is supposed to be like a little bit better than the other guys that are running, is not
using this as an opportunity to just speak convincingly on this issue.
If Park East synagogue wasn't hosting an event to auction off stolen land, then nobody would
protesting in front of it. It's that simple. If these groups are anti-Semitic, why aren't
they also protesting other synagogues that don't hold auctions on stolen land? No one
will ever answer this question. I will fly to any Muslim country or person from the counter
protest approaching people opposing the illegal land sales of Parki synagogue. Just the taste
to the bigotry present tonight.
All right, now let's get to some good news.
The demise of the daily wire.
And Clip of Steam points out here, insane how much Ben Shapiro fell off.
So Ben Shapiro's YouTube channel, over 7 million subs, which is fucking impressive.
That's a lot of subs.
But as you can see here, you know, a video was up for 10 hours, it got 11,000 views.
A video was up for a day, it got 39,000 views.
His videos are struggling now to be fair to him. His you know, I guess his live stream does better overall
He'll get you know, a couple hundred thousand views or whatever over there
But the individual cliff city posts have gotten worse and worse and worse and worse and of course the reason why this is happening
Is because the bottom has fallen out from under maga
Maga is a joke. It's not cool. It's not edgy. It's not fun to be maga anymore. Maga is they have the power
They have the control. They're ruining this country the economies in the shitter the fucking illegal and offensive war waged
against a country that didn't attack us is something that only like 27% of the country
is on board with.
So it turns out if you're just a little regime simp, it doesn't work out well in this moment.
Right?
Like, you know, Fuentes, not struggling as much, Tucker, not struggling as much, Ben,
massively, massively struggling because all he does, he's a fluffer for the regime.
He's Donald Trump's fucking ball boy.
That's what he is.
He washes Trump's balls on a daily basis.
Well, if he was just doing that, there's, there's, you know, you can do that and maintain your audience.
The problem is, it's Israel. And also, because he's Jewish and also supporting Israel, a lot of the people on the independent media side are not really interested in hearing from someone who is constantly defending Israel and certainly not interested in hearing that argument from a Jewish person.
This is precisely the reason why Patrick Bet David has been able to withstand the loss
of revenue that Ben Shapiro hasn't been able to withstand.
Also because Ben Shapiro is like unbelievably pro-Israel too, like Patrick Bet David at
least is like, he'll have like a little bit of ambiguity when he talks about these issues.
He knows better, whereas Ben Shapiro can't stop himself, like every time the issue of
Israel comes up, he's giddy. He's like, oh, yeah, we're fighting Iran. It's so good. You know,
there's also another, there's also another reason. And that's a, that's a larger problem,
I think, in the MAGA movement. I have talked about this before. In the 2016 era, the MAGA
movement wanted to present itself as like both counterculture, but also somewhat intellectual.
And I think in the post-Angertate world, they realize, oh, we don't have to have like unfuckable nerdy losers
who are debate perverts defend our movement. We can have like cool guys. Now, I
don't think Angertate is a cool guy at all.
But I think a lot of unfuckable nerdy losers perceive Angertate to be like a jock, a cool guy.
So when that happened, I think there was a, there was a sea change in what the market demands were.
from a conservative audience. Ben Shapiro was never a real intellectual, mind you. I'm not
saying that he was an intellectual at all, but he had the capacity to intellectualize
right-wing reactionary framing. Okay?
So, I think that is one of the major problems. The next wave of this is to not even be,
The next way of this is to not even be like a cool guy, but instead to be like an unwashed,
disgusting creature, uh, as many gold fills that void in the market for many conservatives
who don't want like, uh, don't want even a convincing case to be made for conservatism,
but just like wear it on their sleeves like a vice signaling, uh, and, and, and like that
the aesthetics actually match their own personal living circumstances. And that's where we're
at in the conservative movement right now. That's my humble opinion as someone who observes
conservative commentators by trade.
To give you some more here, this is monthly gained views for Ben Shapiro. And you can
see the line is fucking straight down, Ski Bro. Straight down. This dude was getting over
175 million views a month, just two years ago. 175 million, that's insane. And now he's down to like 30 million views a month.
That's more than an 80% drop in viewership. Yes, 30 million is still a lot of views,
but that's still a massive fall-off compared to what he had not long ago.
So yes, the rapid decline of the daily wire is only being matched by the rapid decline of the American Empire,
where our allies now hate us and, you know,
we've waved a trade war and hit our allies with tariffs.
So we're basically giving the middle finger to the world.
They're running into the loving arms of China they want.
The evolution of the Magga commentator is interesting.
This is a good take, Chatter.
From what they think they need to be, Ben Shapiro, to what they think they are, and
rotate, to what they actually are, Asmongold.
Yes, the evolution is complete.
And that's precisely the reason why Nick Shirley and Asmongold get so much play in
the conservative sphere, because they're not trying to even present an argument at all.
They're just running around being like Somalis or parasites and need to be fucking banished
from the land.
That's it.
That's what the market demands are.
And I suspect they can get even dumber.
I think the next step in the conservative rhetoric is going to be someone even dumber
than Nick Shirley, which is, I know, unbelievable, but, you know, I'm sure they can go even dumber
than Nick Shirley.
No one can do with us.
Nobody can take our word seriously because trouble save one thing and do the other or
save one thing.
How is that possible?
Just a guy that groans.
A guy, a guy that just films himself basically like, I don't know, groaning at black people
or something, like on the streets.
That's it.
That's the content.
A guy that just like walks up to people who he perceives as like migrants or Mexican or
black and just goes, and then that's it.
That's it.
Guy who grunts in the direction of non-white people.
Watch this space.
We have that already.
Predict himself within the next sentence.
People don't know how to deal with us, so we're alienating ourselves.
The Daily Wire is in a similar position.
They've made enemies of a lot of their former hosts.
The message they're spreading is no longer appealing, and so we end up getting this.
The Daily Wire slashes half of workforce as Ben Shapiro YouTube viewership plummets by
85% since last year.
Restructuring of the Daily Wire leads to significant staff cuts as Ben Shapiro's digital influence
wanes.
The Daily Wire has confirmed mass layoffs across multiple teams, dealing a sharp load
of the conservative media empire Ben Shapiro co-founded into a billion-dollar operation
a decade ago.
The company's restructuring, announced on May 1st, came through a spokesperson statement
citing investment in new production formats
and geographic expansion.
Former employee Candace Owens immediately alleged
that more than 50% of the staff have been removed,
acclaimed the outlet's own editor-in-chief
publicly dismissed as insane.
The cuts arrive as third-party analytics data
point to a sharp erosion and Shapiro's digital reach
with his YouTube channel shedding an estimated 85%
of its monthly viewership from a late 2023 peak.
Confirmed and disputed claims of the daily wire
and a statement provided to the wrap on May 1st,
the daily wire spokesperson confirmed
there were structurally included layoffs
a number of teams with cuts largely concentrated at its Nashville production office. No headcount
figures were provided. The company said it would continue investing in editorial and
investigative journalism, having recently established a Washington D.C. Bureau with
White House briefing room credentials. Political reporter Cameron Arkand, who covered the
D.C. beat for the outlet, confirmed on X that he had been impacted by layoffs today at the
Daily Wire. He described the situation as tough news and said he was seeking new opportunities
in journalism and communications. So, you have some numbers they say up to maybe 60%,
more than 60% of their people got laid off. Edder and Chief Brent Sher responded directly
on X. Yes, the company had layoffs today. It was always really tough. No, it's nowhere
near 50% of the company. That's insane. And also insane to post without verifying independent
industry tracker layoff hedge.com estimated approximately 100 rolls cut representing roughly
half of the remaining workforce at the time of the publication.
And then they go on to the collapse of Shapiro's YouTube and they talk about the YouTube income
declining massively, 85% decline in views, so on and so forth, hemorrhaging survivors.
So they say in the past 30 days while shedding 20,000 subscribers, losing 20,000 subscribers.
So now remember, let's not forget, they were trying to compete, the Daily Wire was trying
to compete with Disney.
They were trying to be the conservative version of Disney.
show they have this like Netflix looking uh just think a year ago or so Shapiro
was in music videos rapping with Tom McDonald how the mighty have fallen yeah
they missing that USA money no I think there is legitimately no audience for
like, whiny pro-Israel sentiment, like, angrily demanding that America actually do more to protect Israel.
That's, there's just, what fucking person wants to hear about that? No one.
System, where, you know, they got like, they have like their kid shows, they were laid off a while ago, the kid shows people, but they try to create...
but I think that was their biggest problem. I did call it, this is what, remember at the time
when they, when they established the bent key production side, when they were going to start
making like more professional content, what did I tell you? I said, this is what took out the NRA.
Did I not tell you this? The media game, especially professional media, is unbelievably
costly and at the time when they said that they were going to do this like Disney competitor
what did I say go back and watch the videos roll the fucking clip if you want to see it
wasn't your prediction this year them failing um I this was even before then this was a
couple years ago in like 20 and 2023 I think or whenever they initially said that they
were going to do bent key productions. But yeah, I told you even back then, that's why
you subscribed to the Piker Broadcasting Service Chatters for tomorrow's news today, the People's
Broadcasting Service, sponsored by you the people, for you the people. It is incredibly
costly to keep this kind of stuff together to make high quality content. It's just not,
it's not only is it not compelling, but also it's virtually impossible. It's virtually impossible
to make ends meet. This is what is the real reason why the NRA went down as well.
Their own version of like Game of Thrones, that was a massive debacle. Everybody hates the story
and it fucking fell apart. But these things cost a trim. What is this? The thing is, a lot of
Zionists in America still didn't understand how hated Israel is by the general public. They think
they're just unpopular, not the most hated country in the world. Pop culture accounts benefit
from being anti-Israel. Their followers want them to be. This is just nuts. If you don't agree with
the message of an account point that I was specifically, not everything is a PSY or something
coordinated. As I said earlier, pop base and pop crave cater to young audiences. Yeah. I don't
think people get it. Like this is why I didn't have too much smoke for, you know, when, when
young people compare something like unpopular to Benjamin and Yahoo or something shitty to Israel.
A lot of people in my community were getting upset about it where they were like, oh, you're like
undermining, you're diluting the cause, right? You're like making something super serious,
unserious. And I at the time thought, no, that's not a bad thing. Actually, that's a good thing
because it just reasserts how unbelievably unpopular Israel is.
And, yeah, we are now officially in a place where Israel is so insanely unpopular, especially
under the age of like 45, that usually people, when they want to say something sucks, they
will literally say, oh, this is like the best content creator in Israel, right?
Yeah, my kids call each other spiritually Israeli. Yeah, when someone is being annoying
or feel a sense of entitlement, people go, oh, you're being spiritually Israeli. Televive
impressed, numerous examples of this. And a lot of people simply do not understand
like people that are over the age of like 45 to 55 and above, they don't even get it.
Yeah. Sombra is my favorite Israeli artist, shit like that.
And it's amount of money. They were over leveraged, bro. And we've seen this time and time again
in political media in particular, where people think like, you know, hey, we'll make this the
hub. We'll make this the, you know, central casting for like the CNN of online news. And,
Bro, people may kiss the wall jokes like normie content creators
Normie content creators
That for years and years were terrified for the last three years
There have been a shit ton of normie content creators including but not limited to very prominent ones that we all know in this community
That unironically are afraid of appearing with me on camera now making kiss the wall references
Okay, kiss the wall jokes
Like shit that I wouldn't even fucking say
so I
Hope you guys understand like we are in a totally different totally unique media environment at this point
So yeah
Roblox started making a I slob in the top comment under its videos were televiva proved a I slob everyone hates Israel. Yeah
Yeah, Chuck Schumer, unbelievable success in making everybody pro Israel.
Yeah, I was really worried about how standing up to the lobby would go, there shit has
no motion anymore.
I mean, in the public, they don't, but that's why they're fucking desperately flinging at
anyone and everyone they can to try and make an example out of them.
Myself is who I'm obviously referencing here.
It's not going to fucking work though.
They think too big, they hire too many people, they take on too many projects and then it
doesn't take much for the whole thing to just fucking implode where you're not profitable.
And so that's exactly what happened here.
They're not fucking profitable.
But the good news for them is the billionaire class, I guarantee you will love to rush in
and prop up the daily wire.
I would be shocked if there's isn't some right wing billionaire out there that immediately
goes in and props them up because the fact of the matter is they're one of the only
major outside of like Fox News, the mainstream ones.
one of the only major big right-wing outlets that is still not only dick-riding Trump,
but dick-riding Israel and Zionism supporting the genocide and all that.
So I do think there will be some form or fashion of a lifeline for the daily wire in the sense that
it's not going to go away and, you know, the billionaire sugar daddies will rush in to save
the day because that's always what happens with right-wing outlets. Now, by the way, I would say
say, if like, you know, if it's like you're sticking to a message and sticking to your
principles and that's why your business is hurting, normally I would actually give credit
that like, good, you're not like trying to ride the wave and go with the flow and like
you're staying true to who you are. And like, that's there's something commendable on that
even on, you know, in the down times, how is also a at home suit enjoyer, by the way.
So, you know, I'm getting my notes from my goat, Kyle Kalinsky.
However, the reason why I wouldn't say that about the daily wire and Ben Shapiro is because
their message is fucking atrocious.
Like I just told you, their message is pro genocide.
Their message is pro ethno state.
Their message is pro Epstein class.
Their message is cut taxes for the rich and give the wealthy all the money and cut all
the social safety net programs and like get rid of the free school lunches for kids.
Like this is their belief system.
Fuck Medicare, fuck Medicaid, gut those,
destroy them, destroy Social Security.
They want things that are objectively horrible
for this country.
So for any other media person,
if they stay true to who they are
and stick by their principles and go through a downturn,
but they don't care and they don't adjust
because they wanna keep telling the truth as they see it,
that's fucking commendable, bro.
We've had hard times on this channel before.
There were times where we were in the wilderness,
but I refuse to fucking wave ride and narrative hump
and tell people what they wanna hear
just so that they'll watch, you know, we stuck to our guns and told the truth and then eventually times bounce back.
But the difference is, we're actually advocating for improving people's lives and fixing this country,
and the daily wire and Ben Shapiro are advocating for destroying this country and making horrible decisions.
And, you know, letting Israel crusade through the Middle East and continue to bomb seven countries and commit multiple genocides and create a greater Israel.
So, he gets no credit for sticking to his principled message because his principles are fucking atrocious and disgusting.
But it's an amazing thing to see. What this says to me is, in a very simple way, what this says to me is,
the mainstream conservatism, Fox News has that lockdown, right?
But the so-called new media world or alternative media world or independent media world, even though
they're not independent, that is now the lane of the Asman Golds and the Nick Fuentes and the Tucker
Carlson's and the Megan Kelly's, because at least they have the foresight to realize Trump is going
to be dead at some point relatively soon and you need to stand for some
god i love i love kyle's commentary man he's just
fucking awesome
he's just he's great he's great something other than just
sucking trump's nuts from the back and so that's why they're trying to carve
of this other path, right?
The other path being, yeah, we're conservative,
but we're anti-Iran war, right?
Like they need to find a way to appeal
to a broader audience that has to include
being against that war
because nobody fucking wants this war.
Nobody with a functioning brain wants this war.
But, you know, it'll be some form of like
Christian fundamentalism mixed in with anti-war politics,
mixed in with white nationalism.
Like that's sort of the future of conservatism.
And the way...
What do you think about Melanchol's very strong start
into the French presidential campaign in 2027
chance of winning. If he can't establish a popular front like he did last time, he's dead in the water.
And I am not so confident in the Socialist, the party Socialist, slash the Social Democrats,
slash the Social Fascists, actually allowing that to happen. I hope it does. I would love to
Fuckin be homies directly with the next president of France. I love him. He's amazing
He's fantastic. He is what France needs
Speaking to friends of mine in in France, I
Feel like they just can't get over the aesthetics of menachem being too much of a curmudgeon and too angry
So a lot of live Frenchies think he's anti-semitic.
Oh, God, that stuff is bullshit.
I just yeah, yeah, yeah.
That I don't even think that's the main concern.
I think the main concern is that they think he's like goofy and old and angry.
That's what I've seen.
He needs that Wemby endorsement.
I don't think Wemby is a LFI guy, unfortunately.
You just hate on Melancholy
because he's a better streamer than you are. I'm honored. So was Amlo. So was Claudia
Shinebaum. That's fantastic. I want them to be better streamers than me.
Since you're a suit guy now, fraudulent by the way, and you just watched because you
know you have to choose what your favorite fit by Daniro was in the movie. Dude, I am
I'm not kidding when I say this, this is the reason I need all of them.
This doesn't do it justice.
Every single suit that Robert Jr. wears in the Martin Scorsese Casino is incredible.
Incredible down to the arm fire.
We should do something with him again, Mélanche, anytime, any day, time and place.
The only problem is he just like doesn't speak any English.
He doesn't speak any English.
I wish, I mean, it's probably best that he doesn't speak English, to be honest.
It's okay.
French for my goat melon goat. I'll learn French
If he somehow
Is capable of becoming the next president I will literally fucking learn
French dude, I will learn French. I will do it
Hassan derangement syndrome scale. What the fuck is this? Wait, hold on. Is this the
Hold on I'll show it like this
You know the polyglot advantage?
Level 1 Casual Critic Mentioned Us On Occasionally In Relevant Context Examples Mentioned Riddles
Political Commentators Occasional Critics Key Indicators Infrequent Mentions Critique
Specific Takes Not A Recording Topic Mentions Per Week How Often They Talk About Us On
Low Total HDS Level To The Max
Level 2 Reaction Driven Regularly Reacts To Hassan For Engagement Or Content
Examples Asmongol, Shonhead, Other Reaction Contact Creators Key Indicators Reacts To Hassan
frequently covers controversies for views. Hassan is part of their content rotation,
not the core. Level three, active antagonists consistently attacks Hassan with personal
or ideological hostility. Examples, who are the fuck are these people? Sidney Watson, John Del
Arrose, other ideological critics. I don't even know who these people are. Key indicators,
frequent negative posts and videos, direct call outs and personal attacks brings up Hassan
unprompted, seeks the damage credibility. I would say that these guys are there too.
Level four, chronic HDS, a substantial portion of their content and community revolves around
opposing Hassan. Examples, Destiny, Ethan Klein, key indicators, years long fixation,
repeated debates and streams exclusively about Hassan, community built around the rivalry,
calls for de-platforming or punitive action. Level five is institutional. Hasan is framed
as a political or societal threat by organizations, media institutions or officials. I mean, this
is a separate. Level five is not the highest level. I think the highest level would still be
Destiny, Dan Stalkman, Ethan Klein, you know, rape tone, those guys.
Lamal, Michael Null speaking about you in the Mehdi Live Debate. Oh my God.
Examples, Fox News, Wall Street Journal, Opus, The Atlantic, New York Post, Vox,
Politico, ADL, Anti-Difamation League, Kindicator, Sustained Negative Coverage,
Institutional Statements and Campaigns, Portrait as Extremist Threat,
uses political weapon and party or public discourse. Special category acute HDS rape tone variant,
extreme fixation and hostility in a short time span with constant unhinged output,
examples, rape tone, key indicators, high volume, low restraint, unprompted obsession,
extreme personal attacks, attempts to provoke or escalate constantly, makes us on a full-time target.
HDS metrics, how we measure the symptoms, unprompted references,
deplatforming advocacy, calls for bans, coordinated campaigning, worse for others,
the platform to push narratives against Isan? Longevity of session, how long the fixation has
been going on? Yeah, I think like, dude, there are a lot of people on this list. There are a lot of,
of, you know, some infamous, some formerly famous people on this list.
But these are, I don't, I don't think the, the tier, the levels are correct.
You've had more drama arcs than One Piece, brother.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was really funny when I found out this, this popped up on my 4U page, but I found out
that Ethan Klein only follows me on Twitch, literally no one else, just me, which is a
perfect indication of his mania.
And I said, Hasan derangement syndrome is real.
Ethan Klein accidentally revealed that Hasan is the only account he follows on Twitch.
He responded. I think I saw this. Finally, proof that Ethan has been intentionally avoiding
my content. I barely even speak about this dope anymore, but he's still boosting deranged
obsessed snark accounts. Who else would I follow on our work twitch account bozo? Wait,
that's really funny. He just admits it. He's like, no, it's actually normal and good and
healthy that I only follow you. Why would your work account only follow me, man?
Also, I barely even speak about this dope. Now, I have not been keeping up with the clients.
But I assume that what is this? It's true only like 22 mentions last month. It's an improvement.
I was about to say, like I highly doubt that he has stopped talking about me altogether.
I mean, it would be great. And yes, only 22 mentions in one month. That is a noticeable
improvement from the three mentions a day that he was averaging for months and months on end.
It is pretty funny, however, that he says, I barely even speak about this dope anymore.
Who else would I follow in the work account?
Brother, don't you have literal employees that stream on the platform Twitch?
Don't you have your own Twitch profile?
Mike?
I feel like there's plenty of other accounts that you could be following.
Yeah, we've watched this before, but it's always funny.
I don't think anything quite like this could happen.
I'm not saying anyone on Twitch influences directly, we don't know anything yet, but
this type of political violence has been very specific people, Mike from PAs been broadcast
consistent and threats of violence. This is right after Charlie Kirk got killed.
Great performance. Let's draw on some more donations for you to give me.
Ian was 25 while threatening to rape. If Papa Gut is
is falling for shallow snark bait than I'm screwed before frenemies when we're doing
the show once per week or highlights channels getting like 30 or 50 million.
I don't think I've ever...
This is, um, oh he wrote, he did this as well.
USA Today, opinion Democrats and legacy media are right to call out Nick Funtas.
Israel Defendants keep writing the exact same article, as if every song Puffpiece isn't written
the exact same way.
Joy Reid and Jim Welsh discuss the false Nick Funtas' song comparisons.
I watched that man for many years. What a fall from grace. Yeah. This one is from January
to April 10th this year.
What it, but April 10th Zionist Ethan Klein had already posted 90 Instagram stories about
Hassan Puggers since the start of the year, but go online about how you hardly speak about
him anymore. Anyway,
repress writer, Dan Stalkman still supports age three.
Yeah, I mean, it's his in his circumstance, like it's not even
beneficial for him. Like he actually had a career before
this. And if he had stopped doing this shit, he probably would
salvage that career but he chose to burn it all whereas like at least with
Destiny's situation like destiny has nothing else right because even with
Destiny's situation you could probably do something else because it's been like a
regular lib and not such a fucking freak but these guys these guys spend every
waking moment obsessively using every opportunity to just be like using every
opportunity to straight up be like I am going to I am going to destroy this
person's life and I don't know what I don't know what it will take for them
to stop maybe if I like die or something I don't know but it is very
strange
Austin ox did you dirty? What is this? Oh God. Come on man. D would have stuck to being
doctor to starcraft to do his ass
time to debate him again lemma out fuck no i would never
and we're one and dumb baby
i'm not kidding i will commission those bespoke suits for you i make bespoke
suits i had one client in my life who also slowly built the
the nero casino wardrobe
Oh God, Austin ox fucking Christ, dude. No free cloud needs to make a comeback. Yeah.
Fake high IQ, highfalutin commentary of Ben Shapiro. That's, that's gone. That's dead.
That's, you know, 2018 type stuff. Nobody cares about you fucking talking in a nasally voice
about marginal tax rates and how the woke kids with purple hair ruining the country.
Nobody cares about you reacting to woke tick tocks. They've seen it 17,000 times. And so
It's just a dead way of delivering shit, and this is the proof of it right here.
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Tucker Carlson says he wants to meet you I would ask would you be on his show but yeah
I watched this he basically says I don't know I feel conflicted about Tucker Carlson I've
opposed Tucker Carlson my whole life I think he should do it I think it's unbelievably
dumb not to do it.
He should absolutely go on the Tucker Carlson broadcast. Um, if given the opportunity. Okay.
That's it. He's not fully, he's not against it necessarily, but he's like, he's not against
it, but he says like, Oh, you know, I have my reservations, all the stuff. And I, you
know, I think if we go on these shows, we should oppose some of their heinous views,
Which I agree, I think that he should.
Um, my only reservation here is that people will just add to those reasons he's a Nazi.
Yeah, that stuff doesn't work.
It doesn't fucking matter.
He should do it.
At the end of this Sarota video, he points out the same thing you did about Tucker using
backstabbing tropes of anti-semitism control? Yes. Um, why go? He's already winning. Uh,
first of all, there's another race happening. Okay. The idea that he's like got this in
the bag is very silly and no one should ever feel that way. It's probably campaign poison
to feel that way.
When we set out on this campaign, I was fully convinced that working people in this state
have a lot more in common with each other
than they might think.
We often find ourselves surprised to realize
that we have almost everything in common.
And in the spirit of that, we're gonna sit down this morning
with a Republican voter from Machanist
and try to find out what we agree on.
Yeah, they asked me a minute ago
why I got into politics, or how long,
if I'd always been involved in politics, I haven't.
10 years ago, Trump decided to run,
and he spoke my language.
And I voted for him again. I voted for him three times because I wanted to,
I wanted to see how he was going to continue because I thought he was doing
okay. And then this turn, I,
what are you going to say if he turns into a Federman?
Imagine being more mad at Tucker using anti-Semitic tropes and platinum mass
murdering people.
Talk Tucker Carlson is a fucking media figure that defended with the
much maximalist racialized terms all of the fucking wars that grand platinum partook in what the fuck are you talking about and
Tucker Carlson is still currently a white nationalist
What the fuck?
Dude, what the fuck it's like
This kind of stuff is so busted like you can't be if you're anti-grand
Platinum and you're anti-tucker Carlson at least you're consistent if you're pro Tucker Carlson and anti-grand Platinum
You're inconsistent. You're a fucking moron. Last time we talked about Plattener, Chatter
said he was worse than Fuentes. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. I can't. I don't want
to. I can't do this. Answer the Fetterman question. I've already explained it to you.
Anyone can be John Fetterman. Anyone can get brain damage into conservatism. What the fuck
are we talking about? John Federman is a unique case. Okay? It's so unique that if you apply
the Federman technique, then anyone could get stroked into being a reactionary conservative.
I told my wife, I said, I'm going to vote from this time, but he's got one year.
He's not only not done what I thought he was going to do, he's gone completely not.
Yes, far worse than when there's the guy who volunteers to kill is worse than an edge lord.
Please don't tell me you're that dumb. Okay. Is Donald Trump worse than grand platinum?
Is Donald Trump worse than the average person that that went into active duty?
Donald Trump has never killed someone with his own hands.
I mean, we don't know if Plattener did either. We just assume that he did. But let's say he did.
Iraqis are dispezzable. No, no, no, no, no, no.
Yes, Trump is worse because he has executive orders. Fuentes doesn't. Oh, so it's the executive
orders. So the reason why Nick Fuentes, who is dying with the president, by the way, who
is at January 6th, who is, he simply doesn't have enough motion yet. Why are you dying on
this hill? Because it's an unbelievably stupid argument to craft. You're talking about a
fucking Holocaust denying neo-Nazi who, who in a white supremacist country like the United
States of America, Trump orders people to kill, Fuentes makes racist jokes.
I'm not saying Nick Fuentes is worse than, I'm not making the argument that Nick Fuentes
is fucking worse than Donald Trump, dumbass.
I'm not saying that he has a worse impact than Donald Trump.
I made the comparison between Donald Trump.
I'm making the comparison between Donald Trump having, Donald Trump making statements with
an executive order authority, for sure, as the commander in chief, as you are defending
a neo-nazi until the neo-nazi comes into a position of prominence, you just assume that
he's not bad then.
Okay?
Just jokes.
What the fuck?
I mean, you can't have Operation Timber Sycamore as your username and then fucking say an active
white supremacist threat.
active white supremacist neo-nazi is is not a significant threat in a active
white supremacist country like the united states of america okay
Jesus fucking christ dude
like the propaganda minister or the the fucking neo-nazi newspapers during the
Holocaust were prosecuted for a good fucking reason right they were also
actively fomenting and defending the violence that was taking place the
boss that was taking shape
guy who's like well their stormer is not that bad actually like what a fucking
stupid argument
We always end up here when we talk about Platinum, I know.
Why can people not just agree to disagree about one fucking Senate candidate?
I don't know.
I don't know why all these fucking ultras handshake with Radlibs and ultra Zionists for
some weird fucking reason.
It genuinely feels like it's an active Psyop.
It genuinely feels like a Psyop.
Nick Fuentes is commanding legions of fucking fans into white supremacy, okay?
Do we have to sit around and wait for them to like kill people or know that they have
killed people because Nick Fuentes is actively fomented, that hatred to say, oh, that's bad?
You have to, because they watch bad and banana.
I just, I don't know.
Holy shit dude just because I'm bad people don't like planner doesn't mean he isn't bad. I
Just don't see it. I don't see it. Okay. There are
Millions of people that go into the fucking military. This doesn't mean that the military is a force for good
I certainly don't believe that having said that
My my there's something in my analysis that is missing from what people are seeing and I haven't been able to like adequately
explain it. Because people just go, oh, it's not a sign up. I just value Iraqi lies. That's
it. No, you don't. You don't. Okay. You just don't. You want to feel like this is a moral
choice that you're making. But if you were to ask fucking Iraqi people, if there was
an anti-war veteran who went to Iraq, they would choose the anti-war veteran who went
to Iraq over the person who didn't go to Iraq, who defended the Iraqi invasion and continuously
defends more military incursions. That is literally the calculation that Iraqi people
make. I'm an Iraqi idiot against that. I said I'd vote for Platinum. This is a lesser evil.
Oh, okay. So he'd vote for him. So you understand that, that voting for Graham Platner is a far
better choice than voting for Susan Collins.
When you're missing for analysis that they are creating a record so they can point to
it and say, I told you so, I told you so, I mean, maybe it's weird because you only
see this kind of behavior online and towards other leftists of an amounts organization
for a long time in IRL is completely different.
We have critics of US politics, but never this annoying, yes.
Anyway, the thing I was going to explain is, I have a firmly held commitment to a fundamental
value that many of you do not have in this community, no matter what happens.
And that is, one, the idea that people can change and grow, and that nothing is irredeemable,
except like, you know, I don't know, being Jeffrey Epstein or being Adolf Hitler, right?
But history is riddled with people who have, due to their social conditioning, started
off doing horrifying things, and then somewhere along the line, changed their mentality and
actively fought back against those same reactionary forces that led them astray, okay?
I don't know if Graham Plattner is that person.
I have a sneaking suspicion that he might be.
Having said that, the way that people cover this issue, the way that people approach the
subject matter, is so out of whack for some weird reason, yes.
Zucca fighting the white army, the entire Vanguard has comprised the former white army
soldiers as well. This is a normal part of the process, not to say that Grant Platner
is a Marxist Leninist, but adjusted to current American material conditions in the Imperial
core, after a hundred years of domineering international capitalism, shepherded by the
United States of America, a war that was fought and won for capitalism and the capitalist
force in this country, and that should help you understand what the starting position
of the fucking average American is, okay?
I wish that we lived in a world where there was already a Bolshevik movement, okay?
I wish, but that's not the world we live in, especially in the United States of America.
As far as Senate runs goes, Graham Plattener, given his current opinions, given the way
he communicates about endless American militarism around the world, he is far better than the
average Senator, like a cut above, okay?
That's it.
We dedicate at least an hour to this.
Every time Planner comes up, can we just get a Planner that says you're taking, never
talk about this again?
That's never going to happen.
Knowing part of the growing includes addressing the harm you cause, not just becoming better
in the future.
And I think the Platinum is grown
But why is it wrong to want him to address the harm he caused because he's running for American he's running
To to occupy a Senate seat in the United States of America and the fastest way and
From what I understand he has talked about his past and his military record
But the fastest way to get completely destroyed by even fucking Susan Collins is to come out and be like the American military's dog
shit and I'm a war criminal and I murdered children, okay? Because that's the expectation
that some of you have. Some of you unironically want them to come out and do a fucking Mao
struggle session and be like, I'm up 20 points. It's time to see if we can destroy this fucking
campaign. I'm going to come out and say the American military is comprised of fucking
baby killers or some shit. And even then you'd be like, Oh, he's just saying that to
win my favor. As though you are in any way shape or form relevant to the fucking public
discourse as though you are representative of any significant demographic in this country
that goes out the boat or not even fucking vote really you're like less than 1% of the
fucking entire country as far as a political movement.
You are Jay Sakai asked people that are demanding 10 lashings in every fucking statement. Every
time someone comes out and says, yes, I held up arms in the interest of the petro capitalist
pedophilia state, and I destroyed the lives of Iraqis, you need that to happen every single
time, like a fucking land acknowledgement before he says any other word, okay?
And even then, you'd still not be satisfied regardless.
The USA is already like 5% of this, and this is like 5% of that, yeah, this is way past
the point of even the Democratic Socialists of America.
And it also annoys me because it comes across as somewhat insincere because half of you motherfuckers learned about what anti-imperialism is by spending a good deal of time in here and now you run around talking about how you I have no need for Hasan's commentary anymore I move beyond it.
I've become a true moral being a very annoying person.
That's why it fucking frustrates me to no end, okay?
Yes, in the American, in the grand American realm of political discourse, even my perspective is considered fucking radical, okay?
And many of you think I'm a pussy who loves American Empire and murdering Iraqi children.
That's what you think about me, okay?
sometimes I think maybe I have done um sometimes I think maybe I've done too
much of a fucking safe space here for a lot of people like you have to go
outside and talk to the average person every now and then they do not have
these sorts of opinions our goal should be to educate people on the dangers of
American Empire but you're not gonna be able to get a word in edgewise if your
starting point is to literally be like every fucking person that you know that
has joined the military is a fucking baby killer. Okay. There's a fuck ton of veterans
in this community as well. Many veterans who are now fighting against American imperialism.
I've had plenty of veterans on the show. I've interviewed plenty of veterans. I'm friends
with plenty of fucking veterans who are anti imperialist. Okay.
I have not and never will be one of the, uh, you know, troop exploder style leftist. I
i think it's gross i think it's a substitute
i think it's not only counterproductive
it's it's uh... it comes across as repulsive to the average person and
our job is to communicate our goals and our desires and our ideology to as many
people as possible
and on top of that
i think it's it's just unbelievably unappealing it just makes it seem like
you are somehow automatically a more moral person because you didn't make the
fucked up choice of signing your life to the defense department, okay? Yes, it's a perfect
way to explain how moral of a human being you are because you didn't join the US military.
I get it. It's free ball. And that's why a lot of people I think in this community love saying that
shit, okay?
Everyone has the capacity to rehabilitate themselves.
What they do now matters more than what they've done in the past.
Anyway, any leftists here who have served in the military is from Grand Planner in 2021.
I did four years in the Marine Corps infantry and four years in army infantry and four total
combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. I was leftish when I was in vehemently opposed to
the war in Iraq, but some were supportive of Afghanistan. Although when I left there
in 2011, I was fully against our presence in the country. It was always difficult to
square my politics to the job. Something made harder because if I'm being honest, I really
loved the work at the time. I often rationalized by thinking it was better that I was an NCO
where the metal meets the meat and it could influence my guys to do the right thing as
as opposed to embracing the baser instincts of people at war.
But it was difficult.
Every day was a stark reminder of the ethical horror show that imperialist adventures always
turn into.
It was also deeply disheartening to see men I liked and respected conduct themselves in
awful ways because frankly, morally bankrupt military campaigns always seem to extend that
rod down to the people tasked with doing the fighting.
Every platoon has the resident lefty and I was mine and wasn't alone.
There was no real contention, just the usual shit talking that occurs in combat units.
of the guys I served with really didn't care one way or another about the politics of it
all. They were there to fight and that was about it. Hardcore flag waving nationalist
types were about as common as those who felt it was all bullshit with most falling on the
side of apathy. This has definitely resulted in a long term mission for a lot of guys I
fought besides as it becomes increasingly clear the wars were a waste of our time and
dead friends slash violence we committed was all for not at least my preexisting cynicism
meant i never felt let down by the expert by my experience by the
experience are a lot of guys i serve
have struggled with that
over the years
my time in america imperial wars definitely radicalize me further and
significantly more left today when i was back then
is difficult to see all that horror as well as the grift and corruption and not
find the entire thing utterly bankrupt
i did you still have america or at least the idea of it these days i'm
pretty disgusted by it all
I'm an IRL ultra friend who ended up practicing those views in person at the local city council
and ended up arrested for threatening them with guillotines.
Now they can't help out anyone from jail.
You have to operate in the real world, yes.
Platter in 2018 says he's a DSA member combat veteran after GOP opponent says campaign is
war you don't know shit about war it always blows my mind how many people assume I'm a
conservative because of my combat service when they find out I'm a DSA member who canvases
aggressively for progressive Democrats it's like washing the gear wheels in their heads
shear off Republicans don't give a shit about service or heroism they just care if you're
on their team of cultish fascism. Anyway, I've never been, I've never been the type of person
who just like automatically venerates, uh, who automatically fucking venerates veterans
across the board. Okay. The concept that like, Oh, you're a veteran. Thank you for your service.
I don't do any of that shit. Okay. I don't do that. And a lot of people get very pissed off
about that. I care about who you are as a person. I've met plenty of fucking dickhead veterans and
I've met plenty of amazing veterans, okay? And I'm pretty sure that plenty of veterans in this
community would probably echo that sentiment as well. They know a lot of dickheads and they know
a lot of great people. The reality of the matter is who you are now is what is most important.
What your opinions are now, what your worldview looks like now, what you are doing now
to change that result, to change the realities is what matters, okay?
I think it's incredibly fucking silly to just, it's one completely ahistorical,
the idea that you can build a fucking movement, especially in a country like the United States
of America where the military is a jobs program, is the largest hiring body in the fucking country,
country after Walmart and you're over here being like, no, we're just gonna, we're gonna
eradicate every single person from the, the, uh, from the playing field. Like they can't
be, they can never be fucking socialist. They can never be anti-imperialist. It's unbelievably
stupid. Okay. And I have been banned off this platform for demonstrate and bigotry towards
veterans, which is a protected class on this fucking platform. And I still maintain this
position, okay? I urge you guys to be a little bit more strategic in the way that you communicate
your desires. I urge you guys to be a little bit more pragmatic. I think people are more
scared of Platinum because of demoralization that him going heal would do would be really
damaging to the general leftist moon organizations and also we estimate it's more likely for
him to flip on the grounds of all this being insincere, him being a dumbass with flip flops.
not only him being a veteran bro, is this groundless and silly? Oh, yes, I think so.
Because we have unlimited access to his background. We have his private thoughts when he was a
private citizen, writing on a fucking anonymous Reddit account. This level of inconsistency
is within all of us. It's in, it, this level of inconsistency exists within your heart
and your mind as well. Okay. If you were to look back sincerely, or if you were to get
a random third-party to make an assessment on your reddit post on your
ideological journey where you
were as a private citizen writing whatever fucking comes to your mind
i'm certain that there would be some blemishes in there too
that's ironically part of the reason why i think people like grand platter as a
matter of fact they see those blemishes and go hey you know what
this guy doesn't have the fake
patina associated with the likes of pete buddha judge
who have been posturing towards a presidential run since he was 12 years old.
That's it.
I've always been understanding of the imperfections of every single person
because I am imperfect myself.
Okay.
I have the capacity to understand that people have room for growth.
That's it.
What is this, speaking of Democrats, coming out as anti-leftist, can we talk about Joshua
Doss?
No.
Ms. Israel says she randomly bumped into the New York City mayor's arm.
I'm done his wife and cafe and it all went horribly wrong.
I told her what I think about the stuff she said online and that I believe that it's important
to engage in dialogue and when she don't dehumanize the other side and she politely brush me off
and then refuse to engage anymore.
so dope. I swear she's cooler than Zoran. She's so much cooler than fucking Zoran. It's not even funny.
Your patience and your kindness and wanting to understand people, those are your best qualities.
You won't read this out loud, but never change. Hassan, no, I mean, that's, that's,
that's the attitude you got to bring. Okay. No matter what happens, that's the attitude you
always got to bring. If I didn't have this opinion, many of you would not enjoy such a large community
that you see as a beacon of light and hope in an internet environment that is filled to the brim
with some of the most toxic repulsive politics. Okay? This community would not be 30,000 strong
on a bad day if I had this gatekeeping mentality. Okay? That's it. I understand
that my goal is to change people's fucking minds and in order to be able in in
order to do so in order to do so I understand that there are so there are
certain things that people believe because their their starting position is
totally clouded by the social conditioning by the systems themselves the
overwhelming majority the overwhelming what is this guys okay if you rape a
child in another country on duty, y'all can grow from that. Dude, I'm sorry, but you're
a schizophrenic fucking loser, okay? You're a psychopath. Like, this is what I mean.
You're not doing good politics. You're not doing organizing. You're just being a fucking
schizophrenic psycho. And then thinking that this is like the peak of morality. Wow, dude,
did it. You're not even a good person at that point. You're just fantasizing about the like,
a child rape. Like, what the fuck?
I've been watching this like 2017 when I was still in active duty. You're fine, my guy. I've
been told him in amperizers for being enlisted. I understand that too.
You encourage people to go outside and organize with their communities and do a lot more than
make smug posts.
I know a lot of people in my local org who join because they watch your stream.
Yeah, that's the goal.
Bro, he said he was joking.
Lomao, come on, man.
What a funny joke that was.
That was a Quebec chatter, it's just their humor.
In any case, I don't trust any politician, okay?
I don't trust any fucking politician.
I can't fully trust any politician.
They're politicians.
They can fail you, they can fail their constituents.
As long as they're doing the right things, you know, I'm going to grade them on a curve
regardless, adjusted to, adjusted to the, to what that position entails.
Even Bernie Sanders, yes, of course, Bernie Sanders, I have many disagreements with Bernie
Sanders.
Bernie Sanders has been somewhat disappointing, not somewhat very disappointing on the issue
of Israel, for example, but I, but I will still always work with Bernie Sanders as well
as all these other people, okay? Yes, even Burn Dog. Burn Dog voted. Burn Dog voted
for the appointment of Marco Rubio. Do you think that's a good decision? Do you think
that I agree with that? No, of course I don't.
What? But refusing to talk about sexual violence because it's inconvenient is not right. You think, you think grand platinum has as like anything to do with like someone doing child rape?
rape the fuck. I banned that person because in an effort to like justify their distaste
they chose to invoke raping a child. People's arguments always revolve around well you wouldn't
say this about the IDF? Yes, I would. Okay. If an IDF veteran turned around and
became an anti-Zionist, then yes, of course, I would talk to that person. And as a
matter of fact, I have talked to that person. His name is Ulfer Kassif. It was a
paratrooper in the Israeli occupying forces and then became a conscientious
objector went to jail and now is a member of the kinesit so yeah it's so
fucking stupid
completely the opposite direction but yeah he's gone he's gone pretty far
beyond what and it's not good for the country but none of what he's done is
good for the country. And that's what I wanted. I hate to say, I'm not gonna say I was wrong
because I don't like to say I was wrong, but I will admit, you know, I'm questioning
pretty hard on things.
Trump came along and told a lot of us that something that we knew to be true was actually
true, which is that we live in a system that's stealing from us. And, you know, it's funny,
I'm from Sullivan, so a lot of my friends are like three-time Trump voters, and I didn't vote for Trump,
but I very much understand what people did.
And then I talked to friends of mine who don't live in rural areas, who are always just like, I don't get it.
I'm like, man, everybody down here feels like they're getting robbed, and Trump came along and told us that, one, you are getting robbed.
Meanwhile, everybody else is telling us that everything's good, they're like the system's
great and we should protect it and Trump said, the system is screwing you because it is
and we all see it every single day.
I'm gonna tell you right now exactly what does, it destroys his campaign.
He's gonna have a voice crack moment and then Susan Collins up by 20.
Okay.
You can't have a cool grovely voice for the longest time and then accidentally have a
Howard Dean moment.
It's the juxtaposition will destroy him.
I was not surprised back in 2016, right?
Friends of mine who are like, I either like Bernie Sanders or Donald Trump.
And I know a lot of people who are like, that doesn't make any sense.
I'm like, it makes sense to me.
It doesn't make sense.
Like it's because both of them are like this whole thing, you're this whole thing is screwed
up, blow it up, blow it up and do something different.
And I think that was the that was the message.
And it's a compelling message and one that frankly,
I think that, I mean, that's my message too.
I mean, this thing is in many ways irreparably broken.
And...
Bernie's the reason why I really became 100% cynical
because in 2016, while both sides,
that's two times that he's been just tossed aside.
He had the nomination and just got replaced.
Yep. Well, that's like the powers that be refused to let him have it. And so they did
what they do. They used their power, not the, they didn't play by the rules. They didn't
do like, they didn't let it be a fair playing field. They had power. They used power to make
sure that they could protect it, which really is kind of fear. Think about it. That's the
entire system at this point.
Dude, why did Trump guys love Bernie so much? Okay, guys, I'm gonna let you in on a secret. Okay
You here in this community and many of you are a dumb as fuck too and so am I okay?
Are still
Unbelievably educated in comparison to the average fucking voter
Like do you guys not talk to normal people? I do all the fucking time
Okay, and my takeaway if they're not a house and I behead is
is usually just, their understanding of politics is literally just like, I don't know, Bernie
was saying it like it is and so is Trump and that's why I like Trump.
Anti-establishment versus establishment, that's literally it, okay?
That's it, that's all it takes for a lot of people.
I just don't, I don't get it.
Please go outside sometimes and talk to human beings, please, please, please, please, please,
Americans have no fucking class consciousness and no political education whatsoever.
Even the most educated people, educated as in like, you know, not political education,
but educated as in like going to college and shit, still have a totally distorted view
on politics.
It always reduces back to fucking team sports for them.
Okay?
Most people do not vote on policy. As a matter of fact, Pew Center researchers conduct the studies on this.
80% of people in this country vote for team sports. They vote Democrat or they vote Republican.
Only 20% vote on ideological boundaries. And even then, the ideological boundaries are not
necessarily because like they are self-identifying like liberals or self-identifying conservatives.
Okay? Even their understanding is still within the confines of liberalism. There is no expansion
beyond liberalism. Okay? When they talk about like why they vote ideologically for the Democratic
Party or why they vote ideologically for the Republican Party, it's still in the confines
of liberalism. There is no Marxist politics in this country, okay? There isn't even the fucking
DSA, the Democratic Socialists of America, right? At least in contemporary American society. There
used to be, but there isn't one now, okay? In contemporary American society,
Even within the Democratic Socialists of America, many people don't fully grasp their ideological
tendency, okay? For a lot of people, and that's only 100,000 paying members, okay? 100,000 paying
members. Do you understand how tiny, how miniscule that is? Even within the DSA system, there are
plenty of people who joined the DSA because they're like, oh, this is a cool kind of Democrats.
Okay. And within the DSA system, there's still plenty who are on the right flank of the DSA,
plenty who are even liberals, plenty who are social Democrats. Okay. So that's just how it is.
And that is the most successful modern socialist movement in this country's,
recent history, okay? Yeah. And also it's been skyrocketing since Zoran's win and the
campaign is what saved the organization. Obviously that played a big role in this, but that is
why we also work with campaigns, okay? That's why we work with campaigns. Campaigns are even
and the current duopoly that exists, campaigns are one of the most effective vehicles to
get in front of as many fucking people as possible.
You go out and you elect a DSA endorsed or DSA candidate, okay, and then that candidate
comes out and actually performs like Zoran is, and then boom, you get more membership.
And through that membership process, you start to build class consciousness, okay, and then
you start to build political education on top of class consciousness. First you need
to develop class consciousness, then you need to, then you need to develop political education.
Okay. We do not have the workings of a vanguard in this country. That's it. That's the reason why
I work with the Democratic Party. People ask me all the fucking time. You're like, you've,
You claim to read what is to be done, but how dare you how dare you how dare you take ownership over Lenin, right?
That's what people say as though
Vladimir Idiyich Ulyanov
Lenin is like a fucking profoundly popular fixture in american politics. You fucking idiot
That's what's so funny about it is that these guys are so
stuck in their own fucking stupid ass hug boxes that they don't think that like
the average American thinks Lenin is like Hitler dude the fuck you're an
idiot
you are siphoning revolutionary potential there is no revolutionary
potential I'm trying to build revolutionary potential you can't have
have revolutionary potential without, revolution is not spontaneous, okay? It's not. She's not.
It doesn't happen through the contradictions worsening and then people just magically decide,
Okay
And I'm not a fucking opportunist either
And the way that you know some people will be like always a tail list. It's not the case
Okay
You need to at least have some semblance of a of a significant percentage of this population there's a far
larger
Counter-revolutionary, and I don't mean like liberal counter-revolutionary. Okay. I mean straight up fascist
Movement in this country, then there is a socialist or a communist one. Okay
That's just the truth so what the fuck do you think will happen if if this entire thing falls apart
Who do you think will be more organized?
Who do you think will be able to take advantage of that?
Sorry mate, you're a tailist and need to be boycotted is not my call.
Sompiker admits he's a traitor to the working class, left-wing tradition, and is a tailist
for the Zionist Democrat Party, Hassan Piker needs to be boycotted. Anyone still revenue
this guy should be embarrassed and public shamed.
Mossad bought activate Hassan is a Zionist. You're hard worded. No argument.
Yes, I'm a tail is the liberal Zionist Democratic Party.
Mike, I understand the necessity for drawing a line of demarcation.
Okay.
It's just, if you were to draw that line today, you would have 12 people on your side, okay?
That's it.
That's it.
Is that simple?
We're not there.
I'm not saying the Democratic Party is the salvation of the working class in this fucking
country. Okay. I understand that it's a bourgeois party. Okay. I get it. Yeah. Most of those
people are also, you know, not even directly petite bourgeois content creator business
or small business owners. They want to be petite bourgeois small business owning content
creators. Okay. They haven't even gotten there yet. So all they're doing is fucking chirping.
All they're doing is, is, is a churving on Twitter. That's the, that's their most, uh,
you know, that's the, that's their biggest contribution to, uh, developing class, class
consciousness. Okay. But Fidel had 13 people eats dominoes and drinks, Mountain Dew. Yeah.
He had 89 people that was reduced to 13. And you know what he also had a fucking communist
movement in the urban areas that joined their movement, okay?
In a country that was dominated by a brutal authoritarian fascist dictatorship that was
aligned with the American state's interests, he developed a peasant army.
Do you guys have a peasant army?
You even, like here, if you want an apt comparison to a peasant-based movement, okay, historical
examples obviously exist.
I'm not talking about like the Russian Revolution, you know, there's obviously back and forth
friction there.
But if you were to look at it, like one of the most successful peasant movements is obviously
under mouth, okay.
There is nothing in the industrially developed world, especially in the imperial core that
resembles a peasant movement.
The closest that you can arrive at with a peasant movement would be the undocumented
migrant labor force in this country.
And I don't see any of you dumb bitches going out, not you in this chat, but any of these
dumb bitches going out and fucking organizing the undocumented migrants, okay?
They are the closest as a, as a class, like as a peasant class.
They are the closest to a, a peasant class and none of you motherfuckers are organizing
around that.
Anyway, this isn't to say that there aren't fantastic movements all around the country
even in deep red states.
are.
But if you're wondering why I do what I do, I make it very clear.
What's your health insurance situation?
I'm on my wife's.
Yeah.
He's still got health and chances to hold.
You really couldn't come up with him.
Chairman Mao didn't have social anxiety.
He absolutely did.
That's not even a joke.
He did have social anxiety.
He had tremendous anxiety.
As a matter of fact, I forget what it's called,
but he had like anxiety related,
like he had like physical convulsions
as a consequence of the anxiety that he felt.
Of course he was like constantly under threat.
So he was experiencing tremendous state repression.
But yes, he did. He did have a lot of anxiety. So you're wrong about that or in an efficient way.
It's just like anything else that's broken. It's broken. What did Ronald Reagan say?
The seven words. I'm the from the government. I'm gonna help. Yeah. Well, the thing is for me is like
until until this last year, because this last year, with the Republican budget cuts that hit the VA
pretty hard. But until this last year, my VA care has been spectacular. Like I go up to
Bangor, or I can go to, I can do community care in Ellsworth for the small stuff, like
go into the urgent care and stuff. And my VA care has also didn't speak Mandarin. Granted,
China didn't have unified language at the time. Yes.
He spoke a regional dialect.
Just it was life-changing something feels weird. I just call it my doctor. I'm like hey this hurts
No, I come on in they do an x-ray. They take a look at it
And then I go and we just take care of it things don't have to wait
I don't have to like set things off because I'm afraid that I have to pay
Planner isn't even a demsocto and that's bare minimum. Yes. He is he's a fucking he's a socialist rival
I've never received a VA benefit.
Really?
I got out of the military in 86.
You've got an honorable discharge?
I got a general discharge.
Really? Yeah, but Jesus, I've got a general.
Last fall,
because I'm getting older,
and I said last fall, I said, you know,
Asan knows as much about this as a,
I don't know what this is,
Mal could read Mandarin standard Chinese characters,
the beauty of an
ideographic language is that people speaking
many dialects could still all write and read the same.
same what no I was just saying like he spoke in a regional was it is it why are
you getting fucking mad
oh wait never mind you were actually giving me praise I didn't understand
because you wrote in a Hunanese dialect, I think.
Asan knows as much about this as a Chinese person, Mal could read Mandarin,
as can any Chinese characters. The beauty of an ideographic language is that
people speak many dialects, can still write and all read the same.
His praise, I thought you were fucking making fun of me. I'm sorry, I don't read Mandarin.
So maybe I'll check into it. So I went to my local VA in Magias, and there's one woman that works there and
She gave me a phone number and I said so is this you know, she said that's to a lawyer
And I said what's the lawyer for she goes that's who you're gonna have to go through to get your to get your discharge upgraded
And I said you kidding me really? Yeah a lawyer
I said, why not just go to the black, why can't the VA do it?
So, one of my best friends from Iraq,
guided two tourists to Fallujah Ramadi,
a legitimate war hero.
I've seen this guy do, like, actual heroism in combat.
He smoked pot.
After we got back from our second deployment,
popped on a test, got discharged out of the Marine Corps,
kicked out OTH, other than honorable.
No benefits.
He has spent, he spent years just struggling.
I mean, this is a guy who legitimately,
I mean, is an actual war hero.
And he didn't get a single shred of support from the VA.
And it was all because the way that they write the rules.
We wound up getting his discharge upgraded,
but it took myself and a couple other guys
that we served with.
We all kind of got together.
We got a lawyer involved.
We got this in what was awful the whole time,
it was like this shouldn't be complicated.
Right.
I mean this guy's got like, this guy has a combat record.
Like we can look through a service record book
and it's DD214 and you can see that this guy
did things for the nation in war.
And yet somehow now we've got to get,
we've got a lawyer involved and we did all this thing
and it worked in the end.
But it was, I mean, it was a multi-year process
and it was so frustrating.
And that's something that for me,
Like I want to, one of the reasons I want to go to the U.S. Senate is that having gone
through these things personally and seen directly like what the, what like the bureaucratic
problems are that keep people from getting it, I want to go up and write policy to make
all this easier.
I also want to frankly unleash like an army of social workers to go around the country
and find vets who aren't getting the benefits they deserve and then do the process for them.
is when people are working really hard
or people are struggling,
the idea that they're gonna go home, sit down,
and like figure out this all this paperwork,
like hire a lawyer?
I mean, if you're working paycheck to paycheck already,
who's going, who's got the time,
like, let me use extra money to go hire an attorney.
Yeah.
I mean, you're doing it in the evening
and all the offices are closed.
What's up, man?
Hey.
It's a battle, bro.
It's gone.
How are you?
Oh, by the way, one of the things, I hate this guy, he's a chud.
I like Tucker, he's based.
I'm a low common denominator hater, ask me anything, ask him if there's a plea of attention.
Wait, what?
I think war is bad, debate me, you will lose.
I too think war is bad chatter, so I guess we are in agreement.
Alright, let's see what fucking CNN debate looks like.
California Governor debate.
I mean, honestly, I don't want to do this right now.
if you will be mentioned I don't think I will be who the fuck I've only interviewed Tom Steyer
and aside from sending me the class trader hat we don't have really
elix might mention me that'd be kind of funny
don't believe our politicians which candidate can seize the momentum and who won't make the cut
This race will come down to those who burn it versus those who are trying to buy it.
Democrats, vying to break away from the path.
Cleaner who wants to catch billions.
I am the only candidate who does not take corporate contributions.
If I have something in its experience, I want a big government war for people.
God, I hate all these fucking candidates.
I mean, honestly, they're all dog shit.
Tom Steyer is the only one that's like interesting out of all these fucking candidates.
I mean, there's two Republicans on there Bianco and Hilton obviously one of them is British the other one's a sheriff
I don't know what's worse
They're also both Republican
But ultimately
Ultimately, yeah, Javier Becerra is terrible. No, I do not fucking support him. Does it not even
um
Does it not even cause a little bit of concern that Javier Becerra?
All of the all of the people that were pushing for what's this fucking face swallowing immediately went to be Sarah
They're all worried about Steyer
Javier Bezera is a is a oil industry lobbyist basically
Yeah, I see how you endorse swallow. They also endorse the Sarah, but
California governor primary debate. I'm Caitlin Collins and I'm Alex Michaels tonight
You'll hear from seven candidates crazy. I know both of these people now
And managed the fourth largest economy in the world early voting is already underway
Ballots are now being cast and a reminder that the top two finishers regardless of party
Advanced to the general election. Did you call the Sarah oil industry lobby? I said he's basically an oil industry lobbyist
This race is wide open
them. The candidates are former Los Angeles Mayor Democrat Antonio Villargoza, former Congresswoman
Democrat Katie Porter, businessman Democrat Tom Steyer, businessman and former television host
Republican Steve Hilton, Riverside County Sheriff Republican Chad Bianco, former Health and Human
Services Secretary. They just flew to Camp David. What's happening? Probably military escalation.
That's begin, but first a review of the ground rules that your campaigns agreed to in advance.
Our goal is to facilitate a fair and productive debate. Each of you will receive one minute
to answer questions, 30 seconds for responses and rebuttals, and 15 additional seconds if
one of us moderators asks you for a clarification. The timing lights in front of you will remind
you of these lips. Yeah, I hate this double endorsement shit that SCI does like no disrespect,
but just fucking endorse one or don't endorse anybody. Okay. I don't like that. I don't like
that at all. It's so fucking wack, dude. And like, oh, yeah, yeah, a fucking American labor
unions, Jesus Christ.
They pulled back the wiener endorsement in San Francisco.
Why did Democrats deserve another four years in charge?
Katelyn, because Democrats are the ones that aspire to include everyone and not leave anyone behind.
Like my parents, who came with $12 in their pocket to California, and they lived the California dream.
My three sisters and I, we got to live the California dream.
but it doesn't come easy. You have to work hard. My mother today still shops with coupons
and you learn that when you watch that growing up and I know that my job as attorney general
as secretary of health and human services is always to help people like my parents
who are working hard and that's why I fought for our families. Made sure that when Donald
Trump was attacking us the first time we went toe to toe with him more than 120 times I had to
sue Donald Trump to keep him from destroying our state of California. When I was secretary of health
and human services, we expanded access to health care to more Americans than ever in
the history of the country.
We were able to negotiate lower drug prices for the first time in history for Medicare,
and we proved that we could drop prices by up to 80%.
If we fight to make California affordable, people will stay, and they will come to this
great state.
Thank you, Secretary Becerra.
Mr. Steyer, that question, why do Democrats deserve another four years in charge is a
key one.
What's your response?
Well, the biggest problem in California is that Californians can't afford to live here
anymore.
And it starts with housing, but it definitely includes health care, it includes electric
costs which are twice as high as in the rest of the country, and it includes soaring gasoline
prices.
I have a plan for every single one of those.
The difference between me and everybody else is I'm willing to take on the corporate special
interests.
I'm willing to push for single payer.
I'm willing to take on the electric monopolies.
spending big against me and that proves it. I'm the change agent and I'm the progressive.
Mayor Mayhem, what's your response? Well, Caitlin, we deserve better. I'm the only
Democrat in this race who has challenged the establishment of my own party to demand better
results. I'm the safest big city in the country, unblocked thousands of homes that are now under
construction, led our city to reduce homelessness faster than any other city. We don't need MAGA
values, but we also don't need more of the same. There's a lot of talk on this stage,
but we should be honest. The experience we hear from Secretary Becerra didn't lead to better
outcomes. It led to 85,000 migrant children who were lost, more fraud in our healthcare system.
Tom Steyer is making a lot of false promises up here, things that the legislature already rejected
because we don't know how to pay for them. We need Pragmatic. Oh, God, there it is. Thank God he
said it. I don't even need to say it for him. Now you get his vibes. We're paycheck to paycheck
growing up. Better things are not possible candidate mayhem. Okay. I will on the first day
call a special election to close a corporate real estate tax loophole that's worth over 20
billion dollars. It's convenient to raise that absolute profit. The truth is that the California
government needs more money because right there you should be like yeah I know the system better than
anybody else okay I became endlessly uh uh wealthy as a consequence of it and now I want to stop
others and and I want to shut it off for myself too. It's a system that actually works for California.
So raising taxes for my customers. Mr. Hilton can I get you to weigh in on this prospect as voters are
facing this as they go and they're getting their ballots out? Yeah pull it Trump pull it Trump be
shameless like it's interesting we've already seen a couple of things that
we'll probably see a lot of in this debate which is the democrats you're
British you're British you're British boy you're British you're British I don't
want to hear it and all that I was asked how I'm preparing the meetings the
thousands of people that have come to our events the last year in California
I've traveled to every part of this. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, we can't be having this dream is my dream. And I want that every single one
of you watching out there and get it back. You heard Mayor Mayhem invoke MAGA value.
We did not do the American Revolution to be led by a fucking Brit.
President Trump's job performance. Why should voters who are unhappy with the performance
of the president, vote for the candidate that he's endorsed in this race.
So they should vote for the candidate who's got a concrete plan to make our state call
affordable.
Three dollar gas, cut your electric bills in half, your first hundred grand tax-free,
a home you can afford to buy.
Oh my God.
It's common sense.
Oh my God.
Katie Porter is on with that shit too.
I hate that.
I know how to get things done.
And we need to change.
We need some fresh thinking after 16 years of one-party rule from these Democrats that
have given us the highest poverty rate, as you mentioned, the highest unemployment rate,
and the highest cost of living in the country.
Mr. Hilton, how can you say that Democrats have it wrong when you can't admit that Donald
Trump lost the 2020 election?
The fact is, all you do is point at Democrats screaming at us and don't have anything else
to say.
And I want to chime in on what Matt may have said.
He's not the only Democrat that's challenged his party.
I have as well.
And I have for a long time, Alex, you said a few months ago that I've been talking about
affordability for years.
I've been challenging my party for years because it's been Democrats that brought us
here, but I can also, okay, I kind of don't want to watch this.
I just realized I don't want to fucking watch this at all.
Like, bro, your state is an nightmare, it really is.
It's so dog shit.
My state's politics is so ass, dude.
Maybe that's why I'm constantly traveling out of state to go help others elsewhere,
is my own backyard is fucking ass. New York is right there. No, I'm not a coward. I'm
not going to run away. Bro, I'm in fucking Indiana. Why? Call me for it. It doesn't have
good politicians is just doesn't. It does not.
Pacing the cost of living in California the most. And that's Donald Trump. The price of
gas has gone up one to two dollars because of Donald Trump and his war in Iran. The price
of goods, groceries have gone up in California because of Donald Trump's illegal tariffs.
That's all they can say is not true. We've had the highest gas prices on average for
freaking Ohio. I'm in Alabama, literal health for a true reason for a very
long time. I'm trying to get the worst for sure. Boys, but it's not enough to
put Congressman Porter. I mean, to this question in and of itself, you're a
Democrat who served in Washington. What's your response? Look, California does
need to make changes. The world is changing around us. We are seeing AI
come and present real challenges with jobs. The pace of climate change is
real. We have an unreliable federal partner who's made clear that California is going to attack
California. Donald Trump has not made any bones about that. This is a real opportunity for California
to set its eyes on the future. It is liberal for me. It's not comaphonia. That's true. Ridiculous
for Mr. Steyer to claim that he's the only candidate that has taken on corporations. When I will
tell you there are a lot of CEOs who've been whiteboarded who would beg to differ. Thank you.
can I respond to that? We haven't heard from you. Let me get your response. Well, thank
you. I just want to actually answer your question. Oh my God. I was not expecting that voice
out of this man. You just listened to probably 10, 15 minutes of why they don't. We are going
to get all my God. I was not expecting him to have such a Weasley voice. That is so funny.
Unexpected voice guy where we are here today. They do not deserve another chance. They have
broken us with endless regulations. Oh my God. He sounds like Reno 9 11. Oh my God.
Oh my God, he sounds like Reno 9-11. Oh my God, what the fuck.
Unfortunately for all of them, I'm the only one on this stage that has spent a career
making California lives better. We're going to talk about the economy now.
We'll get you in in a moment, Mr. Steyer, but we're going to go to you, Mr. Mayhem,
with this question and the issue of affordability. As we know right now, gas prices across the
country are skyrocketing, doing part to the Iran.
Reno 9-11, whatever, shut up. We're in California. Mayor Mayhem, it costs
$6.00 right now or more to buy a gallon of gas in this state.
Your opponent, Mr. Hilton, is promising to bring that price down to $3.00 a gallon in
his first year in office.
Is that realistic?
No, it obviously isn't.
Look, I grew up in a farming town.
I know what it means when the cost of gas goes up $1.00.
People start actually having to make really tough trade-offs.
Can you pay the rent?
Can you put food on the table?
The only candidate in this race who was called for a suspension of the gas tax, because it
is disproportionately harms working families.
We need to reform this tax and make sure EV owners and higher income earners are paying
their fair share.
But the truth is, Javier Vesera is misleading when he blames all of our cost issues on Donald
Trump.
I've fought against Trump.
We've sued the Trump administration.
blocked his cruel immigration enforcement tactics. But California's problems have been
long running. We don't need more career politicians supported by the insiders in Sacramento.
The truth is, we had the highest housing costs, highest energy costs.
Somebody, he's like straight Pete Buttigieg. That's funny. It's true.
It was long before Donald Trump ran for president. We need more pragmatic policies,
removing regulations that are in the way, reducing-
Mr. Hilton, to you and then Secretary Becerra, Mr. Hilton.
So Matt says that it's obviously impossible to get to $3 gas, as I've laid out in my plan.
Before the Iran War, there were 40 states in America with $3 gas or lower, most of which
don't have the abundant oil reserves that we have in California.
But because of the policies supported by Matt and all these Democrats, we are now shipping
oil halfway around the world 7500 miles from places like Iraq instead of opening up California
oil and gas production so we can reduce costs and get $3 gas in California, which is my
plan.
You know why we have those higher standards is because in places like Los Angeles where
we are today, it used to be that you couldn't breathe, kids would have higher asthma rates.
We have those higher standards for a reason.
We can bring down costs over time, but it's a technology that's totally unrealistic that
you're going to have $3 gas in a year. You're lying to the Secretary.
Only in a Democrat state. Secretary Becerra.
Well, I'm fascinated to see people argue that we should get rid of the funding for
the roads so we can take care of potholes of the highway so we can make sure that we don't
have massive congestion or our transit systems by getting rid of the one way we fund those
systems the most, the gas tax. If we were to get rid of the Trump gas tax, we would be able to
save ourselves about $1 to $2 at least just in the Trump gas tax as a result of his war
in Iran. Let's start focusing where the real problem is. And yes, I'm going to repeat Donald
Trump as often as I have to because he's the real menace we have in California.
We're going to have nothing else to say. So let me say this. This war in Iran is
driven up the gas by at least a buck 50. And the truth is we should be taxing the oil companies
because they are getting a windfall profit as a result of the war.
Don't say that around Basara. He's going to be lying into you.
For no apparent reason. We should.
Javier Basara is going to be like, I will fight you.
I will fight you to the death, Tom Steyer.
Let me say this. Being in bed with oil companies is a mistake.
Javier Basara has taken the maximum amount of money from Chevron,
and he has said they're good guys that we need.
The truth of the matter is oil companies are ripping us off at the pump,
They're polluting our air and they're burning up. Thank you, Secretary Viser, your response.
Yeah, it's a rich response from a guy who made his billions
investing in fossil fuels and oil companies, in coal companies. Now he makes the billions and he
has spent more than every other candidate combined in this campaign using those profits to not try
to buy his seat in the governor's office. Tom, the last thing we need is someone who makes
breaches from investing in oil companies and then accuse everyone else of doing the wrong things.
in iris time
i walked away from my company fourteen years ago so i could give back to
california
i am the person on this date was fighting the rail companies and the way
that you know is they're spending millions of dollars to prevent me
from yet you should have to be like i could buy you right now that i would
let me be just like
maybe is that uh... maybe is that a buying ads i should have bought your
campaign
state
has endorsed me
and and the people who are a sample by you all the money
the oil companies the electric monopolies are spending tens of millions of
dollars against me okay maybe not analyst maybe don't say that you're too
white to say that but you get what i mean
billionaire tax just last week a one-time
five percent tax on the assets of billionaires could work for a fucking
billionaire might as well pull a trump on that stage at the whole point over what
could be the nation's first wealth tax
by the British one. We're out here buying.
Because I support good ideas, not things that help me dodge political potholes due to my own
background. This billionaire's tax is simply not taxable. Put a tie on his up-biker because
a human trafficker who has watched me in Congress, take on bank CEOs, take on pharma CEOs, challenge
them for the fact that their workers can't make ends meet while they're packing $26 million
a year knows that I will speak truth to power. And here is the truth. This tax isn't going
to fundamentally change California's economy in the way that young people and the working
people of California need. It's a one time tax, but we don't have one time revenue needs.
It taxes billionaires as if half billionaires don't have two nickels to rub together and
couldn't chip in a little bit. Yeah, I don't really care. Like I know it's an unproductive
one-off tax. I know all of this. I just don't give a shit. Like, uh, I think it's good.
It's good to start. It's a, it's a healthy muscle to exercise. And I think a lot of Americans
agree with me on this, right? Like it's one of those things where I totally am aware that
this is a one-off. It's kind of silly. It's nowhere near the, the necessary structural
change that has to come, but I just don't care. You know, I'm like, no, it's good. I'm in favor of
any kind of billionaire tax is good. One off, 10 off, doesn't fucking matter. Let's get a treat.
People also complain about the way that this will, the way that this tax will be utilized,
this stuff too, where they're like, it's a one-off tax and it can only be spent on healthcare in the
the state. Great. Fuck it. Why not? It's rich to say she supports good ideas. And she's
the one saying everyone gets a hundred K deduction for their income. Talk about bullshit ideas.
I know that one was so fucking annoying. Take tax. We both thank you for more money.
And it's read to the candidates. I'm confused. Do you support the billionaire's tax that
is going to be on the ballot? Take the elements or no, Katie, I just said I will
vote for it if it's on the ballot in November. And so what I've said is, far enough that
in fact, he said it's not even good enough. We need to go further throughout the government.
Let me weigh in. We're going to bring Sheriff Bianco in first and then we'll get you, Mr.
Mayor. No, thank you. Don't get Reno 911 back in there. Who cares about this guy? Why are
There's too many candidates you fuck how we started this program off to begin with
Everyone is leaving California. It is because of their horrific policies
I agree with Katie that this is a whole
But she is wrong on one thing this is not a bill in our tax bill
You just have to read it and read what it is
I have spent my career suffering the consequences of their decisions and their
policy that they love talking about I am the one that deals with it and this the
140,000 people that are paying 50% of the taxes are going to leave and then the wording of that bill
I don't know. They're with the super wealthy Matt leave Riverside
Oh, no
They're not leaving that's why they're in California. Shut the fuck up such as Oracle Chevron. Okay. I'm meeting this guy
I'm sorry. This guy doesn't exist in my mind. Okay
Okay, listen, California's very own Andrew Cuomo. I'm sorry
He, I don't even see him.
I will forget about him, former mayor of Los Angeles.
He does not exist, okay?
Just imagine him as non-existent on this debate stage.
Cut.
And I could tell you this.
We over-rely on the upper income tax.
That's why you have feast and famine virtually every year.
So the problem with the billionaire tax, it's a one-time tax, it's flawed.
I believe the people that make that kind of money
I'm glad he's taking the L on it because like he was trying to be fucking super literal about the tags
And I tried to communicate to him that like listen listen big dog. No one cares. Okay, you're a billionaire
Think about why people don't give a shit about this tax being a one-off
Okay
If you want a long-standing billionaire tax or a better, you know, reliable long-term funding revenue strategy, that's great
But you should say yes to this when they earn a little more
They trip up into a different tax bracket and they have to pay more
That's all I'm suggesting we do for corporations and by the way not only would that say to the corporation that has a better year
And makes a billion dollars you pay not the same rate
Maybe you pay a tiny bit higher rate so that we can provide tax relief for families earning less than 100
Oh god, I make this I can't believe that she's running on this by the way. Oh my god. Oh my god tax relief for
Families earning less dude. Dude. It's a race to the fucking bottom Americans Americans stop with this bullshit
Okay, any Democrat that runs around saying like we have to actually lower taxes for people making
We have to lower tax for people making less than $100,000 is is like is insane. Okay, you're fucking insane
No, the goal here should be to adjust the progressive taxation structure so that it's it's more meaningful
And and you get to actually tax the wealthy, okay?
Taxing wealth for example, not just income
This is what we are supposed to do in this fucking country not cut the taxes for 99% of the fucking population
No, don't say you can do both. Don't be stupid
Okay
It's a trick. It's a mistake
Taxes only go one way in this goddamn country. It's supposed to go in the opposite direction more taxes not less
Okay, more tax for the wealthy
The working class already pay a tremendous amount of their yearly income in the form
of taxes already.
The overwhelming majority of Americans already get taxed on income, okay?
The real problem, the real thing that we have to tackle is taxing the wealth, okay?
The idea that we are supposed to cut taxes is unbelievably stupid.
It's a major fucking revenue driver.
100 K is working class in California. Yes, it is. No, but you're not supposed to go in
the tax cut direction because that is, it's, it's an incredibly stupid decision. Okay.
It's an incredibly stupid decision. Cutting taxes for the working class is, is going to
only go under in one direction. You're just cutting taxes. You're never going to increase.
You're never going to be able to increase tax for the wealthy. You're just going to
cut taxes or raise to the bottom. Our services are already struggling. What the fuck are
you talking about? The truth of the matter is what I stand for is shared prosperity,
real prosperity, real growth, supporting businesses, but sharing it work so that the people in
California get what they need. And going after corporate special interest is the way we're
going to drive down costs for them. Thank you, Mr. Steyer. Secretary of the
Senate, Mayor Mayhem suggested that you're interested in growing the size of government.
He says he wants to cut it. Your response to that. I didn't say I want to cut it. I
said I want to use the revenue we have today to make government better. We need to demand
demand Sacramento do bet
people to pay more. All of
will just increase cost.
Mayor may have to take a
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larger than your city of San Jose and make sure that we continue to improve
health care for more and more Americans. But on the issue of taxes, here's the
point. Everyone should pay their fair share. No one can claim that a CEO who's
making more than a thousand times more than their line workers is paying their
fair share. And Tom, one of these days, let us know how much money you have in
the Cayman Islands so we can make sure we tax you, your fair share.
Okay, I'm gonna answer that because I pay full taxes on everything I'm invested in all
over the world and I pay full California and US taxes on absolutely everything. That's not fair,
but what is fair is this. I'm going to drive down costs. The idea that I'm going to drive down costs
by going after the electric monopoly that no one else here will take on. We're going to introduce
competition. I'm going to go after the oil companies, make them pay for their pollution,
and have a windfall profits tax. I am going to drive down costs for working people,
And that will not only work for them, it will work for the corporation to employ them and make them more competitive.
Thank you, Mr. Steyer. Mr. Mayhem, your chance.
Yeah, I just, I have to go back to this point about it's not always about the size of the budget or how big government is.
But being able to balance it is an important point.
I think you have to admit that.
Here's what I would do. Here's what I would ask you to acknowledge, which is you keep referencing your experiences, your main qualification.
But what have those 30 years of experience gotten us?
More Americans insured than ever.
No, hold on. Let me finish. Let me finish. Higher and less affordable health care that's
actually not on my watch. We did not. Health care costs have gone up relentlessly. Health
outcomes. If I could just finish my point. Well, you have to make sure you say that's
fashionable. Okay, it's pretty. You go look at the data. Health care costs are up. We were able
to get more Americans insured than ever. Mind if I just finish the point? Mr. Merrick, finish
at a time. What are the really, really quick points? I'll just talk about the issue.
I'm going to be prepared to fact check though. When it's your turn, go ahead. So higher healthcare
costs, they're squeezing families today. Worst health. Yeah, the top opponent, the single
payer, by the way, the doctor's lobby straight up maxed out the Becerra and as HHS secretary.
It's as bad as ever and you've been a political career politician.
That's right. Secretary Becerra.
Yeah, totally untrue. Man, that sounds like a MAGA talking point. Listen.
Oh, it's the facts.
Under my watch, more Americans gain health coverage
in the history of the country, more than 300 million.
Under my watch, we were able to give folks access to the Obamacare
insurance policies on the marketplace, for in some cases, $10 or less a month in premiums.
Today, those are skyrocketing and people are losing those premiums and insurance covers
because Donald Trump abandoned those health care subsidies.
Thank you, Secretary.
Learn the facts, Matt, before you start talking on this.
We're going to come back to health care because obviously it's a huge topic for everyone in
this state.
Come on, man.
You're parroting, talking points like you've been paid off.
This is shameful of you.
Which is immigration, as all of you know.
Mr. Hilton, right now, President Trump is enacting a whole-
Star is lying.
Star lies about shit all the time.
Star still has financial stake in oil stocks.
You know this.
Are you ignoring the research 40k maxed out? Come on, man. You're parroting talking boys. Like you've been paid off
I have sources and research
Sit down. Oh, you're a Basara fan
Look man
Anyone that says they're in favor of Medicare for all or single payer that then gets the opportunity to implement it and
Chooses not to is always going to be a fucking enemy in my book
Okay, that's it. And yes, I it's not like Tom Steyer is is someone
I'm super excited about either. I've told you already. I've told you from the start
that I'm not in favor of your paid off with three white has how dare you. Yeah. It's
cause Tom Starr sent me the class trader hat. That's why, uh,
Clyburn and Durst Becerra. Yes. All the entire corporate Democrat political machine,
the entire corporate God, Javier Becerra wants to go play shirt. Okay, dude.
get the fuck out of here. Listen, Javier Becerra is a, uh, is a product of machine politics
in this state and machine politics in California has been devastating for California politics.
I live in it and I'm sure you live in it too, but you clearly don't have as much as a distaste
as I do for machine politics. This is not talking boys. This is lived reality. This
is what the fuck? What are you talking about? I'm third gen California. Okay, who gives
a fuck? So you've experienced it as have I, what are you talking about? I didn't even
know that Javier Bizarre had Javier Bizarre heads in this fucking community. You're talking
to Mr. L. A man. Yeah, he said three generations. Okay, well, I've only been here for 13 years,
know, I'm not three generations in. Tom Steyer is a billionaire. Javier Becerra is a slave
to the billionaire interests. That's it. And same with Katie Porter, both Katie Porter
and Becerra, but especially Becerra is the one that they immediately consolidate support
behind. Once Eric Swallow was no longer viable because it came out that he's like fucking
sexually assaulting all of his staffers.
Mr. Bianco, you've been very well behaved tonight, especially compared to CBS.
And I actually appreciate it that you've been waiting your turn and following the rules.
And I would appreciate it if everybody could do that.
Because I think Californians are actually owed some answers to questions.
We were told we can interject.
Congressman Porter, on the question itself, on these farm workers, which are a big part of of California.
What's your answer to that?
Yeah, Ron, they're not the bad guy.
Yeah.
It's the job of the governor to protect every single Californian, period.
There are no qualifications on that.
Are you doing that?
Are you doing that by having a sanctuary state policy?
Absolutely not.
And I was on the stage telling everyone what was going to result from sanctuary state.
And it's forcing us to be less safe.
May I give an answer?
It's the job of the California governor to protect every single Californian.
What do you mean?
Twitter is trash?
Yeah, I know Twitter is trash.
It's time to make sure that our state resources, the taxpayer dollars, the public servants
that we have, are focusing on doing their jobs, which is not cooperating with the federal
immigration authorities.
These are Californians.
They contribute to our economy.
They pay taxes and they're one of the only ways that our state has been growing in recent
years.
Mayor Villegorosa?
go so? You know, you say you're a sheriff and I know you are, but you clearly don't know.
Are you a viscera has their delusional lives? I'm the only one up here that has to work with
this or Bianco. Excuse me. The fact is, uh, since 2019, the state has turned
who is this guy thousand violent criminals to the federal government. Sanctuary law does not
protect both of these people should not be on the stage you constantly say they do oh yes it does
we've turned over this state has turned over 12 000 criminals uh i'll tell you what i think is
illegal is a sheriff of riverside county sequestering uh it's because you're lying to vote and the way
that you did it's because you're lying to the Supreme Court said that you know they done it in the
the first play. No they didn't. Can I interject on the straight?
Kaylin, can I go? Good, Mr. Becerra, Secretary Becerra.
So I'm the only one who actually has experience taking on Trump in the way he's handling
undocumented immigrants because when he was president the first time I was the attorney
general and we took him on straight on in court. We stopped him from trying to force
local law enforcement to do the bidding of ICE. We were able to make sure we protected
the DACA program for our dreamers all the way to the Supreme Court and we beat Donald
Trump. What we have to do is make sure that Trump cannot invade California and you can't
stop him if you've got a governor like Steve Hilton who is his dad. Donald Trump's his
daddy and he will protect them all the way through.
Thank you Secretary Vissera. Mr. Hilton, I'll let you respond to that and I have a question
for you Mr. Scherer after that.
I don't want to respond to silly name calling but I'd like to actually respond to something
Katie said. I think it's probably a sincere policy difference between us. She said something
very revealing, which is the only way really that California's economy has been growing
in the last few years is through illegal immigration. And I just don't think that's the right way
for us to be growing. I think we need to help small businesses create jobs and opportunity
and for Californians to be able to earn more and live the California dream and for entrepreneurs
to want to start businesses in California. That's how we should be growing our economy,
not by illegal immigration.
Congresswoman Porter.
I mean, given that you're an immigrant
and you added to a legal issue and we're all having to live
with the consequences of that decision.
Katie, there's a difference, I think,
you'll accept between legal and illegal immigration.
Yes, and I wasn't referring to what I was saying,
that immigration has been a major source of growth
in California's economy, and that is true.
Thank you, Congresswoman.
Mr. Steyer, I've got a question for you on immigration
because you want California's attorney general
to be able to hold both ICE agents and their leadership
criminally liable for what you say is quote violent illegal conduct on the job
does that include the former dhs secretary christian ohm who oversaw the
ice operations in los angeles last year
the governor of california should hold people
accountable who break the laws of california specifically including ice
agents and the people who send them
racially profile which is illegal
Joe, just say yes, bro. You're too wordy, Tom.
Thomas! Say yes!
Fuck it! Eat the media cycle!
What do you mean? Lean into the fucking drama!
Come on, you're a fucking billionaire!
What are they going to do?
To be held liable.
It is not legal for federal agents
to come to California and break the law.
It is absolutely critical.
He's just so fucking wordy.
Oh, my Lord. Just say yes.
Ice, to me, is a criminal operation.
I've said all along, we should abolish ICE.
It's breaking the law.
It is coming in deliberately.
Yes, and then explain it.
We should hold them accountable.
We should inspect the detention centers
that they have in secret.
So just to clarify, you're a liar.
We should have an illegal defense fund.
Yes, I don't know.
I would go all the way up the chain.
I've gone as far as Stephen Miller.
Stephen Miller should be held accountable.
Yo, that's what I'm talking about.
That's the point.
But just to clarify, since Cristiano was the Senate
confirmed to the Department of Homeland Security Secretary. Do you believe that she is someone
who should be prosecuted? If she has given the orders to break the law in California.
Yes.
What's your response to that?
No one has broken the law in California. And this is why-
No one. Cop. Classic cop. No one. I'm sorry. It doesn't matter. If you're law enforcement,
you are incapable of breaking the law.
Rated up with the motion because they don't want to tell the truth ice agents
Forcing the law. Yeah, I say these are good
They're so handsome in the way that they
Prattle around in their into our school gear to find these criminals. I love us
Yeah, this guy's really gonna fucking do a great job as the California governor
You are not making it because of an illegal immigrant that had been deported three times because of D
Sometimes I walk up to ass agents and I say arrest me officer here. I put my hands behind my back for you
An undocumented worker killed someone who is this guy go to jail. He should be prosecuted. It's too late
Don't you think how about the three DUIs before that finish? No, but you want to be the only that you always are no
I know you know, you're a North Keeper. We all know that and I'm very proud of it
Well, you should I'm very
You're gonna swear an oath and you swore an oath you should know what you were swearing
I'm sorry proud of defending it. Don't think an oath keeper is qualified to be I don't think you know what an oath keeper
let me
Answer this guy can't even fucking get his oh my god. He can't even get his dunks out
God damn it
You're talking to a fucking
member of a white supremacist militia bro just say it out loud be like be like
my opponent here is perhaps standing around too many brown people over the
first time given that he's a part of a white supremacist militia just say that
not enough Steve Hilton let me be clear you know I know you're recently arrived
to California but if you've read the Bay Area Institute the UC Merced study
immigrants if we took them all out including the undocumented it would be a
a $274 billion hit to the California economy.
Okay, I literally think he's just Andrew Cuomo on OZMPIC.
I think he's Andrew Cuomo on OZMPIC.
Call him out for being British.
Everybody that wants to, like, again, lie and emotionally get all spun up about the
OTHKEAP organization, I just would, before you-
dude one of the top candidates
who is a republican in the california
jungle primary
is literally a fucking out key oath keeper
from a different state
okay and he is defending being an old keeper
on the god damn debate stage
what the fuck are we doing
extremely proud of swearing enough to defend my constitution
against politicians like you misunderstood my wife's comment and
gave her a day off and now she's trying to pay an NC wish to make you shed your
pants. Please don't. Don't do that. I think we should police Donald Trump's
masked mercenary force that they call ICE. I think we should prosecute any of
the forces that violate the law and I think we should jail anyone who has
violated the law. That goes all the way to the top. I agree. Anyone has violated
the laws of California, they should serve time.
And I'm telling you, no one has.
That's, you know, there are two people who are dead
in Minneapolis because they were simply doing their civic duty
and being able to ask under the Constitution.
Oh my God, oh my God, he's so agro about defending ICE.
Come on.
You've already been called out of old papers,
Brist, brought guns to the Capitol, Mr. Bianco.
Just be honest.
Sheriff Bianco, as the member of law enforcement here,
last week the Department of Justice
sue the state of new jersey because the governor there signed into law a mask
ban for ice agents a similar law in california was was blocked last month
do you believe that ice agents who are still in california steward and linda
resnick the owners of agri gine the wonderful company pistachios pomegranate
is giving california what they do
would i do nice do i allow my deputies to do that
in certain circumstances nice the answer would be i guess yes
because depending on the circumstances that the federal government
has jurisdiction. Okay, I'm fucking bored. This sucks. Um, I'm already out. I saw at least a
little bit of it. I'm done for the night. Everybody, uh, almost eight hours. You already know what it is.
Half day, Hossie, seven hours and 55 minutes. Uh, we'll look at some of the highlights from this
debate tomorrow. I'm tired. I'm going to go hang out with my family. Uh, and, uh, yeah, that's,
That's all I got for today. Please run for some kind of office. Fuck no
Okay, anyway, love you guys
All right peace everybody
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